| Buddleja acuminata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
| Genus: | Buddleja |
| Species: | B. acuminata |
| Binomial name | |
| Buddleja acuminata Poir. |
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Buddleja acuminata is a rare shrub endemic to the northern half of Madagascar and eastern Zaire, where it grows along forest edges and in clearings at elevations of 50 - 800 m. The species was first named and described by Poiret in 1810 [1]
B. acuminata is a sarmentose, often lianescent, shrub 1.5 - 3 m in height, with stellate-tomentose branchlets. The opposite dark - green leaves have petioles 0.7 - 2 cm long, the blades variable in shape, from triangular to narrowly ovate, 5 - 11 cm long by 1.5 - 6.5 cm wide, long - acuminate at the apex, subcordate to cuneate at the base, all but glabrous above, stellate - tomentose below; the margins range from coarsely dentate at the base, to entire and covered by a thick felt-like indumentum. The inflorescences are white panicles, initially small and congested < 2 cm in diameter at anthesis, enlarging to 15 cm long by 6 cm, the corollas 9 - 13 mm long. [2]
B. acuminata is not known to be in cultivation.