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Authority - Wilhelm | Total Number of genera - 7 |
Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Angiosperm | Total Number of species - 150 |
Plant forms - Tree/Shrub/Herb/Liane | |
World Distribution - Tropical & warm climates. Widespread. They are native throughout the warmer parts of the New World from the southern United States south to Chile, and widely in the Old World in Africa and the warmer parts of Asia, but absent as natives from Europe and Australasia. | |
Comments - It is now included in the Scrophulariaceae, though in the past was previously classified in either the Loganiaceae or in a family of its own, the Buddlejaceae. The largest species (of Buddleja) reach 30 m (98 ft) tall, but most species rarely exceed 5 m (16 ft) tall. |
1 - Androya. 2 - Buddleja. 3 - Emorya. 4 - Gomphostigma. 5 - Nuxia. 6 - Peltanthera. 7 - Polypremum. |