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buttonia
Scientific Name: Buttonia
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Category: Dicot
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Buttonia
Buttonia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Orobanchaceae.
Taxonomy and Nomenclature
- Genus: Buttonia McKen ex Benth.
- Family: Orobanchaceae (formerly Scrophulariaceae)
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Synonyms: One synonym for Buttonia natalensis is Buttonia natalis MacKen ex Benth. & Hook.
Species
- The Plant List includes 4 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Buttonia, of which 3 are accepted species names.
- Accepted species include Buttonia natalensis and Buttonia superba.
- Buttonia hildebrandtii was described by Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler in 1897, and the name is considered validly published.
Common Names
- Buttonia superba: Umhlanhlaze Enkulu, Large-flowered Climbing Foxglove
Distribution and Habitat
- Observations of Buttonia natalensis distribution are mapped by The South African National Biodiversity Institute.
Morphological Characteristics and Growth Habits
- Buttonia are perennial, slender, trailing or scrambling shrubs.
- They are described as hemiparasitic on roots and have flexible stems.
- Buttonia can be suffruticose, with stems pubescent above with short pallid hairs, glabrous below, somewhat woody or wiry, and herbaceous towards the end. They can be rambling or climbing.
Ecological Role
- Buttonia is a hemiparasitic plant. One description mentions it as a perennial, woody parasitic plant (Ranker or Creeper) on Grewia sp.
Further Information
- Information is available from The Plant List, the International Plant Names Index, the Catalogue of Life, and the USDA PLANTS database.
- Discover Life provides information about the biology, natural history, ecology, identification, and distribution of Buttonia.
- World Plants has details on Buttonia natalensis.