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Buddleja caryopteridifolia
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.
As it resembled B. crispa, it was sunk under this name by Leeuwenberg, although it has recently been restored as a separate species; the Plants of the World Online database concurs, treating it as a distinct species. 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). Although the name is known in horticulture, plants sold as this species are most likely the hybrid B. × wardii of an unknown origin.
Authentic examples of Buddleja caryopteridifolia are not currently known in cultivation outside of China.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Buddleja caryopteridifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
