Buddleja caryopteridifolia
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
| Genus: | Buddleja |
| Species: | B. caryopteridifolia |
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| Buddleja caryopteridifolia | |
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Buddleja caryopteridifolia W.W.Sm. is a small deciduous shrub discovered by George Forrest in 1913 on open ground at 3,000 m on the Tong Shan in the Yangtze valley, China. The species was described and named by William Wright Smith in 1914.[1]
As it resembled B. crispa, it was sunk under this name by Leeuwenberg,[2] although it has recently been restored as a separate species;[3] the Plants of the World Online database concurs, treating it as a distinct species.[4] It had been suggested in 1947 that some specimens grown under this name at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh were actually Buddleja sterniana (now a synonym of B. crispa).[5] Although the name is known in horticulture,[6] plants sold as this species are most likely the hybrid B. × wardii of an unknown origin.[7]