''Buddleja cuspidata'' is a species endemic to Madagascar, where it grows along river banks. The species was first named and described by

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in 1895.''Kew Bull. 1895'' p.113. 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

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lary and

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, 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''.Leeuwenberg, A. J. M. (1979). ''The Loganiceae of Africa XVIII - Buddleja LII, Revision of the African & Asiatic species.'' Mededelingen Landbouwhogeschool Wageningen, Nederland. 79 - 6 (1979).

Cultivation

''Buddleja cuspidata'' is not known to be in cultivation.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q4984448 cuspidata Flora of Madagascar Flora of Africa