| Buddleja axillaris | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
| Genus: | Buddleja |
| Species: | B. axillaris |
| Binomial name | |
| Buddleja axillaris Willd. ex Roem. & Schult. |
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Buddleja axillaris is a shrub endemic to Madagascar, the Comoro Islands, and Tanzania, growing in forests at elevations of 300 - 1400 m. The species was first named and described by Willdenow in 1827 [1]
B. axillaris is a sarmentose shrub 2 - 3 m in height, with quadrangular branchlets, often obscurely winged, and white-pubescent. The opposite leaves have thinly coriaceous ovate to narrowly elliptic blades, 6 - 30 cm long by 2 - 10 cm wide, acuminate or apiculate, abruptly narrowed at the base, minutely pilose above, but white-tomentose to subglabrous beneath, with mostly shallow crenate - dentate margins. The slender white or occasionally yellow inflorescences are axillary, solitary and thyrsoid 3 - 14 cm long by 1 - 4 cm wide, the corollas 5 - 17 mm long. [2]
The species is considered closely related to B. cuspidata and B. sphaerocalyx.
B. axillaris is not known to be in cultivation.