Buddleja cuspidata
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.
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.