Buddleja cuspidata

Buddleja cuspidata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Scrophulariaceae
Genus:	Buddleja
Species:	B. cuspidata
Binomial name
	Buddleja cuspidata; Baker

Buddleja cuspidata is a species endemic to Madagascar, where it grows along river banks. The species was first named and described by Baker in 1895 [1]

Description

Buddleja cuspidata is a shrub 3–4 m in height, with brown tomentose branchlets, obscurely quadrangular. The opposite, thinly - coriaceous leaves blades are ovate or elliptic, 9–20 cm long by 4–9 cm wide, acuminate at the apex, decurrent into the petiole, sparsely pubescent above, brown tomentose beneath; the margins serrate - dentate to crenate - dentate. The narrow yellow inflorescences are axillary and spicate, 3–15 cm long by 1–1.5 cm wide; the corollas 7.5–8.5 mm long.

Buddleja cuspidata is considered closely allied to B. axillaris and B. sphaerocalyx.[2]

Cultivation

Buddleja cuspidata is not known to be in cultivation.

References

Kew Bull. 1895 p.113. 1895.
Leeuwenberg, A. J. M. (1979). The Loganiceae of Africa XVIII - Buddleja LII, Revision of the African & Asiatic species. Mededelingen Landbouwhogeschool Wageningen, Nederland. 79 - 6 (1979).

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[Baker-1] Kew Bull. 1895 p.113. 1895.

[Leeuwenberg-2] Leeuwenberg, A. J. M. (1979). The Loganiceae of Africa XVIII - Buddleja LII, Revision of the African & Asiatic species. Mededelingen Landbouwhogeschool Wageningen, Nederland. 79 - 6 (1979).