View source for Buchnera ← Buchnera You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Buchnera |accepted_authority=Linnaeus |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Sp. Pl. |place=2: 630. 1753 |year=1753 }} |common_names=Bluehearts |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Orobanchaceae;Buchnera |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orobanchaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Buchnera]]</div></div> |etymology=For Andreas Elias von Büchner, 1701–1769, physician |volume=Volume 17 |mention_page=page 457, 508 |treatment_page=page 506 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> biennial or perennial [annual]; hemiparasitic, caudex ca. as wide as stem, semiwoody. <b>Stems</b> erect, not fleshy, glabrate or hispid-hirsute. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline or cauline, opposite or subopposite; petiole absent or nearly so; blade not fleshy, not leathery, margins entire, dentate, or crenate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, spikes or spikelike racemes; bracts present. <b>Pedicels</b> absent or present; bracteoles present. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 5, calyx nearly radially symmetric, tubular, lobes narrowly triangular; petals 5, corolla purple, blue-purple, blue, violet, rosy, or white, bilabiate, salverform, pilose within, abaxial lobes 3, adaxial 2; stamens 4, subequal, filaments pilose; staminode 0; ovary 2-locular, placentation axile; stigma short-cylindric. <b>Capsules</b>: dehiscence loculicidal. <b>Seeds</b> ca. 250, dark brown to blackish, cylindric-hexahedral, slightly broader at one end, wings absent. <b>x</b> = 20.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia (Malesia);Africa;Australia. |discussion=<p>Species ca. 100 (3 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>In some publications, the honoree of the name <i>Buchnera</i> is given as Johann Gottfried Büchner (1695–1749), German botanist. C. Linnaeus (1738) explicitly stated that the honoree is A. E. von Büchner. Linnaeus omitted this information in 1753 and 1754, thus perhaps opening the door to erroneous etymology.</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=philcox1966a |text=Philcox, D. 1966. Revision of the New World species of Buchnera L. (Scrophulariaceae). Kew Bull. 18: 275–315. }} }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Leaves: blades linear to linear-lanceolate, not smaller distally; calyx tubes prominently 10-nerved. |[[Buchnera obliqua|Buchnera obliqua]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Leaves: blades narrowly ovate, lanceolate, or narrowly oblanceolate, much smaller distally; calyx tubes obscurely 10-nerved. |[[#key-0-2| > 2]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Leaves: larger blades narrowly ovate to lanceolate, major veins 3, minor veins (0–)2, apex acute, margins irregularly dentate, teeth 2–3 mm; corolla lobes 5–8 mm; calyces 6–8 mm. |[[Buchnera americana|Buchnera americana]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Leaves: larger blades narrowly oblanceolate, lanceolate, or broadly linear, major veins 1, minor veins (0–)2, apex usually obtuse or rounded, margins entire or crenate, teeth 0.5–1.5 mm; corolla lobes 2–5 mm; calyces 4.5–5.5 mm. |[[Buchnera floridana|Buchnera floridana]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Buchnera |author=Bruce A. Sorrie |authority=Linnaeus |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Orobanchaceae |illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey |illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association |distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia (Malesia);Africa;Australia. |reference=philcox1966a |publication title=Sp. Pl. |publication year=1753 |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V17/V17_874.xml |genus=Buchnera }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Orobanchaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Orobanchaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Buchnera.