| Buddleja oblonga | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
| Genus: | Buddleja |
| Species: | B. oblonga |
| Binomial name | |
| Buddleja oblonga Benth. | |
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Buddleja oblonga is a species endemic to the Serra do Caparaó and south as far as Paraná in Brazil, where it grows in fields and damp thickets near streams at altitudes of 1,000 – 2,200 m. The species was first named and described by Bentham in 1846.
Description
Buddleja oblonga is a dioecious shrub with dark-brown longitudinally fissured bark. The young branches are quadrangular, bearing sessile oblong to elliptic membranaceous leaves 6 – 15 cm long by 0.8 – 3 cm wide, glabrous above and glabrescent below. The white inflorescences are 4 – 10 cm long, comprising 4 – 8 heads in the axils of the reduced terminal leaves, the heads 0.7 – 1.5 cm in diameter, with 5 – 9 flowers; the corollas 4.5 – 5.5 mm long.
References
- ^ Norman, E. M. (2000). Buddlejaceae. Flora Neotropica 81. New York Botanical Garden, USA
- Bentham, G. (1845). DC., Prodromus 10: 442. 1846.
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| Buddleja oblonga | |
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