Buddleja L.
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Buddlejaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Erect, sometimes scandent shrubs, or less frequently trees, pubescent with simple, stellate trichomes or peltate scales. Leaves opposite or sometimes alternate, petiolate or sessile; blades simple, serrate or less frequently entire or lobed; stipules present or absent. Flowers usually functionally unisexual, 4-merous, arranged in cymes that in turn form terminal or axillary heads or panicles. Calyx campanulate or tubular, of short sepals; corolla gamopetalous, white, yellow, orange, pink, or purple, the lobes shorter than the tube; stamens 4, inserted on the upper portion of the corolla tube, the anthers linear, inserted; ovary superior with 2 connate carpels, the style short, the stigma claviform or globose. Fruit a septicidal capsule or less frequently a berry. A genus of about 1 00 species of amphitropical distribution.