''Buddleja suaveolens'' is endemic to central Chile, growing mostly in rocky areas along rivers at elevations of 500 – 2,900 m. The species was first named and described by Kunth and Bouché in 1845.Kunth & Bouche (1845). ''Ann. Sci. Nat.'' 5: 358. 1846Norman, E. M. (2000). Buddlejaceae. ''Flora Neotropica 81''. New York Botanical Garden, USA

Description

''Buddleja suaveolens'' is a

dioecious Dioecy (; ; adj. dioecious , ) is a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct individual organisms (unisexual) that produce male or female gametes, either directly (in animals) or indirectly (in seed plants). Dioecious reproductio ...

shrub 1 – 4 m tall, with grey fissured bark and persistent dead naked branches. The young branches are yellow, terete and tomentulose, bearing small sessile, elliptic to oblong subcoriaceous leaves, 0.5 – 3 cm long by 0.2 – 1 cm wide,

glabrescent Glabrousness (from the Latin ''glaber'' meaning "bald", "hairless", "shaved", "smooth") is the technical term for a lack of hair, down, setae, trichomes or other such covering. A glabrous surface may be a natural characteristic of all or part of ...

above but tomentose below. The yellowish orange leafy inflorescences comprise one terminal and 2 – 7 pairs of heads in the axils of the upper leaves, each head approximately 1 cm in diameter, with 6 – 20 flowers; the

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s 5 mm long. The species is considered to be closely related to '' B. mendozensis''.

Cultivation

The species is not known to be in cultivation.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q4984725 suaveolens Flora of Chile Flora of South America Dioecious plants