Buddleja

Translingual

Alternative forms

Buddleia, Buddleya Buddlea

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

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

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