Buddleja

Translingual

Alternative forms

• Buddleia, Buddleya

Etymology

From Buddle (“a surname”) +‎ -ia, after English naturalist Adam Buddle. The spelling is as coined by Linnaeus, the "j" being an artefact of early modern orthography.

Proper noun

Buddleja f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Scrophulariaceae – the butterfly bush and many related flowering plants.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I – clades; Lamiales – order; Scrophulariaceae - family; Buddlejeae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Buddleja sect. Buddleja, Buddleja sect. Chilianthus, Buddleja sect. Nicodemia (sections)

References

• Buddleja on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Buddleja on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Buddleja on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons