| Buddleja oblonga | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | 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. [1] The species was first named and described by Bentham in 1846.[2]
B. 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. [1]