Buddleja alata

Buddleja alata Rehder & E.H.Wilson is endemic to western Szechuan, China, growing at elevations of 1,3003,000 m; it was first described and named by Rehder and Wilson in 1913.[1] Leeuwenberg found the plant to be such a perfect intermediate of Buddleja albiflora and Buddleja nivea as to consider it a hybrid of the two species.[2]

Buddleja alata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Genus: Buddleja
Species:
B. alata
Binomial name
Buddleja alata
Synonyms
  • Buddleja × alata Leeuwenb.

Description

Buddleja alata grows to between heights of 13 m in the wild. The stems are tetragonous and winged. The leaves are lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, 1428 cm long, glabrous above, tomentose beneath. The inflorescences, which appear in August, are narrow terminal and axillary panicles, 1020 cm long, and comprise white flowers with yellow eyes.[3]

Cultivation

The species is uncommon in cultivation.

References

  1. Sargent, C. S. (1913). Plantae Wilsonianae. An Enumeration of the Woody Plants Collected in Western China for the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. 1(3): 570. 1913 [15 May 1913]. Arnold Arboretum, Cambridge, MA.
  2. Leeuwenberg, A. J. M. (1979) The Loganiaceae of Africa XVIII Buddleja L. II, Revision of the African & Asiatic species. Mededelingen Landbouwhogeschool Wageningen, Nederland.
  3. Phillips, R. & Rix, M. (1989). Shrubs. The Pan Garden Plants Series. Pan, London. ISBN 0-330-30258-2
  • Li, B & Leeuwenberg, A. J. M. (1996). Loganiaceae, in Wu, Z. & Raven, P. (eds) Flora of China, Vol. 15. Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, USA. ISBN 978-0915279371 online at www.efloras.org
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