Buddleja fusca
Buddleja fusca is a species of flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae that is endemic to Madagascar. It grows along forest edges or in thickets at altitudes of 1,500-2,500 m. The species was named and described in 1884 by Baker.
Description
Buddleja 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.
Cultivation
Buddleja fusca is not known to be in cultivation.