Buddleja hieronymi explained

Buddleja hieronymi is a species endemic to southern Bolivia and northern Argentina first described and named by Fries in 1905.[1] [2]

Description

Buddleja hieronymi is a dioecious shrub 1  - 1.5 m high with greyish rimose bark. The old naked branches often persist, while the youngest branches are tomentulose, bearing small oblong subsessile leaves 0.5  - 3 cm long by 0.4  - 1 cm wide, membranaceous or subcoriaceous, tomentulose to glabrescent above, and tomentose below. The yellowish-white inflorescence comprises one globose head 0.5  - 0.7 cm in diameter formed by 6  - 9 flowers, with occasionally a pair of smaller heads below. The tubular corolla is 2.5  - 3 mm long.[1]

Cultivation

The shrub is not known to be in cultivation.

Notes and References

  1. Norman, E. M. (2000). Buddlejaceae. Flora Neotropica 81. New York Botanical Garden, USA
  2. Fries, R. E. (1905). Nova Actae Regiae Soc. Sci. Upsal. ser. 4, 1: 117 - 118, t6, f13