| Buddleja fusca | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
| Genus: | Buddleja |
| Species: | B. fusca |
| Binomial name | |
| Buddleja fusca Baker |
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Buddleja fusca is a species endemic to Madagascar, where it grows along forest edges or in thickets at altitudes of 1,500 - 2,500 m. [1]. The species was named and described in 1884 by Baker.[2]
B. fusca is a shrub 1 - 3 m in height, the branchlets nearly terete, bearing opposite, petiolate dark - green leaves highly variable in shape and size, but generally small, elliptic to ovate, 1 - 4.5 cm long by 0.5 - 2.2 cm wide, acuminate to rounded at the apex, cuneate to truncate at the base; the margins irregularly serrate - dentate to repand - dentate to entire. The yellow to orange inflorescences comprise terminal and axillary thyrsoids, 1.5 - 6 cm long by 1.5 - 2 cm wide; the corollas 8 - 11 mm long.[1]
B. fusca is not known to be in cultivation. [1]