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Buddleja coriacea J.Rémy

Scrophulariaceae

Climate known 66 photographs
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Summary

Buddleja coriacea is a variable species endemic to the high Andes from the Cordillera Blanca in Peru to Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. It is also native to Ecuador. It grows on dry to semi-humid rocky soils at elevations of 3,000–4,350 m, where temperatures range from −3° to 15° C. and the winds are both strong and persistent. The species was first named and described by Rémy in 1847.

Text from Wikipedia, “Buddleja coriacea”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Buddleja

Buddleja is a genus comprising over 140 species of flowering plants endemic to Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The generic name bestowed by Linnaeus posthumously honoured Adam Buddle (1662–1715), an English botanist and rector, at the suggestion of William Houstoun. Houstoun sent the first plants to become known to science as buddleja to England from the Caribbean about 15 years after Buddle's death. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Buddleja”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Scrophulariaceae
Described by
J.Rémy
Native to
Bolivia, Peru
Wild records
296 in range· 84 open

At a glance

Warmest month
14°C
Nov, mean day; nights 3 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1124mm/yr
8 wet months · peak Jan 221 mm (CHELSA)
Light
33–44DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a sharp rainy season, November to March at the habitat (not shifted); the temperature curve is flat (3.3 °C of range), so no growing season is inferred. Habitat rain 1124 mm a year, wettest January at 221 mm, driest July at 11 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 33 to 44 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -5.7 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Buddleja buxifolia Kraenzl.; Buddleja coriacea var. beta Wedd.; Buddleja rhododendroides Kraenzl.; Buddleja ususch Kraenzl.; Buddleja utilis Kraenzl.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a sharp rainy season, November to March at the habitat (not shifted); the temperature curve is flat (3.3 °C of range), so no growing season is inferred.

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the year's rain (862 mm of 1124 mm) falls in November to March. The temperature curve is flat, 3.3 °C between the warmest and coldest month, so the growing-season rule does not infer a growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; with a flat temperature curve there is no season to reverse, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 1124 mm a year, wettest January at 221 mm, driest July at 11 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1124 mm a year at the habitat, 862 mm of it November to March. Wettest month January at 221 mm, driest July at 11 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 675 mm to 1893 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 33 to 44 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 33 to 44 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 28, the highest 90th-percentile month 52).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor -5.7 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -5.7 °C, the absolute minimum -8.1 °C, about 97 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 24.8 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -1.3 °C in July (across the envelope cells -4.1 °C to 3.9 °C), warmest day 13.8 °C in November (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -5.7 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 54 to 66% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 12 °C in Jun to 14 °C in Nov; mean night from -1 °C in Jul to 4 °C in Jan. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest night. 1124 mm of rain a year, most in Jan. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 179 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -8.1 °C and the 99th-percentile day 24.8 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-10°10°20°30°frost24.8° 99th-percentile day (undated)-8.1° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 33–44RH 54–66 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 179 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C13 / 10–1513 / 10–1513 / 10–1512 / 10–1512 / 9–1512 / 9–1412 / 8–1412 / 9–1513 / 9–1614 / 10–1714 / 10–1713 / 10–16
Night °C4 / 1–74 / 1–74 / 1–73 / -0–71 / -3–5-1 / -4–4-1 / -4–4-0 / -4–41 / -2–62 / -1–73 / -0–74 / 0–8
Rain mm221 / 143–355195 / 137–296186 / 111–26277 / 38–14420 / 7–6212 / 5–4711 / 4–4221 / 10–5941 / 16–9280 / 22–149102 / 31–179158 / 79–251
DLI39 / 31–4639 / 31–4638 / 31–4336 / 31–4035 / 30–3833 / 28–3635 / 29–3838 / 33–4141 / 36–4744 / 37–5144 / 35–5242 / 32–50
RH %66 / 61–7166 / 61–7166 / 62–7163 / 59–6957 / 51–6554 / 46–6355 / 45–6256 / 47–6359 / 49–6561 / 51–6762 / 53–6764 / 57–68

Each figure is the median across the 179 grid cells holding the 289 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2158:2272 (-17.925, -66.375). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -8.1 °C, 1st-percentile night -5.7 °C, 99th-percentile day 24.8 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 179 distinct grid cells holding the 289 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2158:2272 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -18.00_-66.250, lapse-corrected +203 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 3668 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBolivia, Peru
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “montane tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-16.454, -68.162 · in the densest population, 211 records (71% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 296 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 84 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 91 km away. 2 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 7 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 296 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Carlo Brescia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (2); (c) Humber Alberto, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Anders Hastings, some rights reserved (CC BY) (4); no rights reserved · CC0.

Photographs: iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Buddleja coriacea, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Modelamiento de nichos ecológicos de flora amenazada para escenarios de cambio climático en el departamento de Tacna - Perú
Marco Navarro, Cesar Augusto Jove Chipana, Javier Máximo Ignacio Apaza (2020) · Colombia Forestal
Efecto de mordientes sobre la variación de diámetro y tono de color en hilos de fibra de alpaca teñidos con flores de colli (Buddleja coriacea)
Franklin Lozano, Arturo Quispe‐Quispe, Fulgencio Vilcanqui-Pérez (2024) · Revista de Investigaciones Veterinarias del Perú
Anti-inflammatory and anti-arthritic effects of compounds from Buddleja coriacea
Luis Apaza Ticona, G. B. Siñani Callisaya, Francisco Aguilar Rico, Javier Sánchez Sánchez-Corral (2022) · Natural Product Research
Textile Properties of Native Cotton From Pachachaca Valley - Apurimac, Peru, Dyed With Buddleja Coriacea Dye
Arturo Quispe‐Quispe, Clever Huarhua-Huillcapaniora, Franklin Lozano, Virgilio Machaca (2024) · Revista de Gestão Social e Ambiental
Efectos del colorante natural inflorescencia de colli (Buddleja Coriacea) en la solidez de color de teñido de fibras de alpaca
Alexander Sucasaca Quispe, Eusebio Disederio Guevara Garnica (2021) · REVISTA DE INNOVACIÓN Y TRANSFERENCIA PRODUCTIVA
Buddleja americana L. Buddleja coriacea J. Rémy Scrophulariaceae
Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana, Rainer W. Bussmann (2020) · Ethnobotany of mountain regions
Evaluation of Alpaca Yarns Dyed with Buddleja Coriaceous Dye and Metallic Mordants
Arturo Quispe‐Quispe, Franklin Lozano, Luz María Pinche-Gonzales, Fulgencio Vilcanqui-Pérez (2024) · Fibers
Estudio etnobotánico de plantas útiles en la comunidad campesina de Acopia, Acomayo, Cusco
Gleny Dueñas-Huanca, Aida Rosalia Cutire-Sumina, Isau Huamantupa‐Chuquimaco (2022) · GENTRYANA
Buddleja americana L. Buddleja coriacea J. Rémy Scrophulariaceae
Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana, Rainer W. Bussmann (2020) · Ethnobotany of mountain regions

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Buddleja 2 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
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wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 14 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.