Buddleja skutchii

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Lamiids
Ordo: Lamiales

Familia: Scrophulariaceae
Tribus: Buddlejeae
Genus: Buddleja
Sectio: B. sect. Buddleja
Series: B. ser. Cordatae
Species: Buddleja skutchii
Subspecies: B. s. subsp. costaricensis – B. s. subsp. skutchii
Name

Buddleja skutchii C.V.Morton
References

Phytologia; Designed to Expedite Botanical Publication. New York 1:148. 1935
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Buddleja skutchii in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.

Buddleja skutchii is endemic to much of the sierras of Central America, growing mostly in pine-oak forest, also in cloud forest, and in shrubby secondary growth. The species was first named and described by Morton in 1935.[1][2]

Description

Buddleja skutchii is a dioecious tree 5 – 25 m tall, with brown to blackish fissured bark. The young branches are quadrangular and tomentose, bearing lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate leaves 6 – 20 cm long by 2 – 10 cm wide, membranaceous to subcoriaceous, glabrescent above, below with adpressed indumentum, the margins entire. The yellow to orange paniculate leafy-bracted inflorescences are 8 – 15 cm long by 8 – 20 cm wide, comprising 3 – 4 orders of branches bearing small cymules 0.4 – 0.6 cm in diameter, each with 3 – 15 flowers. Ploidy: 2n = 76.[2]
Cultivation

The species is grown at the Strybing Arboretum and Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and in France at Le Jardin de Rochevieille [1].
Subspecies

Two subspecies have been identified by Norman:[2]

Buddleja skutchii C. V. Morton subsp. skutchii E. M. Norman (syn. Buddleja matudae Standl.)
Buddleja skutchii C. V. Morton subsp. costaricensis E. M. Norman

References

Morton, C. V. (1935). Phytologia 1:148 – 149, 1935.
Norman, E. M. (2000). Buddlejaceae. Flora Neotropica 81. New York Botanical Garden, USA