| Buddleja hieronymi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Division: | Magnoliophyta |
| Class: | Magnoliopsida |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Buddlejaceae |
| Genus: | Buddleja |
| Species: | B. hieronymi |
| Binomial name | |
| Buddleja hieronymi R. E. Fr. |
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Buddleja hieronymi is a species endemic to southern Bolivia and northern Argentina first described and named by Fries in 1905. [1] [2]
B. 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]
The shrub is not known to be in cultivation.