Buddleja cuspidata explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. Kew Bull. 1895 p.113. 1895.
  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).