Buddleja simplex
Extinct species of flowering plant
title: "Buddleja simplex" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["buddleja", "flora-of-mexico", "flora-of-central-america", "taxa-named-by-friedrich-wilhelm-ludwig-kraenzlin"] description: "Extinct species of flowering plant" topic_path: "geography/mexico" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddleja_simplex" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Extinct species of flowering plant ::
|genus = Buddleja |species = simplex |authority = Kraenzl. |synonyms = * Buddleja saltillensis Kraenzl.
Buddleja simplex is probably extinct, as no record of it has been made for nearly 200 years. It was a species endemic to Saltillo in Mexico, described and named by Kraenzlin in 1912.
Description
Buddleja simplex is a small shrub, the young branches subquadrangular with adpressed tomentum. The small, membranaceous oblong to elliptic or oblong to lanceolate leaves have 0.5 – 1.5 cm petioles, and are 2 – 4 cm long by 0.5 – 1.2 cm wide, tomentulose above, tomentose below. The bracted inflorescences are 5 – 10 cm long, comprising 8 – 10 pairs of sessile or pedunculate heads
The species is considered very close to B. sessiliflora, the latter having marginally larger flower heads and longer fruits.
References
References
- Kraenzlin, F. W. L. (1912). ''Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien'' 26: 396, 1912
- Norman, E. M. (2000). Buddlejaceae. ''Flora Neotropica 81''. New York Botanical Garden, USA
- "World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World".
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