| Buddleja jamesonii | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
| Genus: | Buddleja |
| Species: | B. jamesonii |
| Binomial name | |
| Buddleja jamesonii Benth. |
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Buddleja jamesonii is a species endemic to southern Ecuador, where it grows in moist, protected ravines and borders of tussocks at elevations of 3,000 - 4,000 m. [1] The species, first named and described by Bentham in 1846[2], is now threatened by habitat loss.
B. jamesonii is a trioecious shrub 0.5 - 1.5 m high with greyish fissured bark at the base. The stems are subquadrangular and lanose, crowded with leaves on short axillary branches. The leaves are sessile, lanceolate and comparatively small, 3 - 4 cm long by 1 - 2 cm wide, lanose on both sides. The cream inflorescence typically comprises just one terminal head, occasionally with a pair of additional sessile heads, each 0.8 - 1.6 cm in diameter, with 15 - 30 flowers. The corolla is 3.5 - 4.5 mm long. [1]
The shrub is not known to be in cultivation.