Family:
Scrophulariaceae Juss.

Buddleja Houst. ex L.

This genus is accepted, and its native range is Tropical & Subtropical America, NE. to S. Africa, Madagascar, Asia.

[FZ]

Loganiaceae, A. J. M. Leeuwenberg. Flora Zambesiaca 7:1. 1983

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx green, campanulate or nearly so, less often cup–shaped or obconical; lobes usually subequal, from slightly longer to much shorter than the tube, erect, entire.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla cup–shaped, campanulate, funnel– or salver–shaped, variously coloured, from white to orange or to dark violet, or purple, often with an orange throat, sometimes darker at anthesis, outside with an indumentum of stellate and/or glandular hairs, but glabrous at the base, which is included in the calyx tube, and at the apices of the lobes, less often entirely glabrous or hairy on the entire outer side of the lobes; lobes usually shorter than the tube, imbricate in African species, elliptic or suborbicular, at the apex rounded, obtuse, or emarginate, entire to crenate, spreading or erect.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamens inserted in the corolla, from the base of the tube to the mouth, with a certain degree of variation in a single species; filaments mostly short or very short, long only if stamens well–exserted (section Chilianthus); anthers oblong or less often subcircular in outline, mostly glabrous, apiculate to emarginate at the apex, mostly deeply cordate at the base, introrse; cells parallel or sometimes slightly divergent at the base, discrete, longitudinally dehiscent throughout.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
Pistil: ovary superior, usually 2–celled. Style short or long, included or exserted; stigma often large, clavate, capitate, or less often bilobate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary Placenta
In each cell one axile placenta with several to many ovules.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Capsule bivalved, septicidal; valves mostly splitting up to the middle. Fruit a capsule or sometimes a berry, subglobose to narrowly ellipsoid, surrounded or subtended by the persistent calyx and often at the same time by the persistent corolla.
Morphology General Habit
Shrubs, less often trees or suffrutescent herbs, 0·25–30 m. high, mostly with a white or pale grey indumentum of stellate hairs which dries usually rusty on the branchlets, the lower side of the leaves, and the inflorescences.
Morphology General Colleters
Colleters absent.
Morphology Stem
Branchlets terete to quadrangular, in the latter case sometimes narrowly winged. Bark rough, fibrous, longitudinally fissured.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves opposite and those of a pair equal, less often subopposite, or in a few species alternate, petiolate, sessile, or — if opposite — sometimes connate–perfoliate.
Morphology Leaves Stipules
Stipules leafy, reduced to a line, or absent.
Morphology Leaves Leaf lamina
Lamina circular to very narrowly elliptic, entire, crenate to dentate, or sometimes evenlobed.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence terminal and/or axillary, thyrsoid, paniculate, or variously reduced even to a single globose head.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers 4–merous, actinomorphic.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds pale to dark brown, obliquely fusiform or obliquely polyhedral, winged or not, laterally compressed or not, reticulate or less often smooth or ridged.

[FSOM]

M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS

Morphology General Habit
Shrubs or small trees with an indumentum of generally branched hairs
Morphology Leaves
Leaves mostly opposite; stipules leafy or reduced to a line
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers 4-merous, in terminal and/or axillary panicle- or raceme-like inflorescences
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx ± campanulate with subequal lobes
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla variously coloured; lobes imbricate
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamens inserted in corolla; anther cells not confluent
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
Ovary 2-celled, each cell with many ovules; style with capitate or slightly 2-lobed stigma
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit a capsule with septicidal dehiscence or sometimes a berry.
Distribution
Some 140 species in tropical and subtropical regions of both the Old and the New World.

[FTEA]

Loganiaceae, E. A. Bruce and J. Lewis. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1960

Morphology General Habit
Shrubs or small trees, hairy and glandular
Morphology Leaves
Leaves rather thick, often wrinkled, frequently dentate or crenate; stipules interpetiolar or reduced to a line
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Cymes many-flowered, variously grouped into terminal and lateral panicles
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx 4-lobed or 4-fid
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Corolla-tube ± cylindrical; lobes spreading, imbricate in bud
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamens 4, inserted in the mouth of the corolla, not exserted (except in B. dysophylla)
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
Ovary 2-locular; ovules numerous in rows on axile placentas
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Capsule ± oblong, septicidally dehiscent and the valves also at least partially halving from above
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds small and numerous, sometimes winged or tailed; endosperm fleshy; embryo straight.

[FTEA]

Loganiaceae, E. A. Bruce and J. Lewis. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1960

Morphology General Habit
Shrubs with angled branches and usually large interpetiolar stipules
Morphology Leaves
Leaves elliptic or narrowly elliptic, papery, often glandular
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences of few-flowered whorls or clusters of usually simple single axillary racemes or spikes
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Flowers similar to those of Buddleia
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruit a “drupe”.

Native to:

Afghanistan, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Assam, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, California, Cambodia, Cape Provinces, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Guatemala, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maluku, Marianas, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Nevada, New Guinea, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Northern Provinces, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qinghai, Rodrigues, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Uganda, Uruguay, Utah, Venezuela, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Alabama, Ascension, Belgium, Bermuda, Botswana, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cameroon, Connecticut, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, District of Columbia, East Aegean Is., Fiji, Florida, France, Galápagos, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hawaii, Hungary, Illinois, Ireland, Italy, Juan Fernández Is., Kentucky, Leeward Is., Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Jersey, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, North Carolina, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rhode I., Romania, Rwanda, Sicilia, South Carolina, Spain, St.Helena, Switzerland, Tennessee, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia

Buddleja Houst. ex L. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Rico, L. [1312], Bolivia K000295147

First published in Sp. Pl.: 112 (1753)

Accepted by

  • Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne.

Literature

Flora Zambesiaca

  • Leeuwenberg in Meded. Landb. Wag. 79–6: 1–163(1979).
  • Sp. Pl. 1: 112. (1753).

Flora of Somalia

  • Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
  • Leeuwenberg in Meded. Landbouwhogeschool Wageningen 79(6): 1–163 (1979).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 51 (1754)
  • Marquand in K.B. 1930: 177 (1930)
  • Sp. Pl.: 112 (1753)

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    Flora Zambesiaca
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  • Flora of Somalia

    Flora of Somalia
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    Flora of Tropical East Africa
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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