''Buddleja dysophylla'' is a species

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to southern Africa, from

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and

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south to

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, and from the

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Province, where it grows along forest edges or in scrub at elevations of 0–2,600 m.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). The species was named and described in 1883 by Radlkofer.''Abh. Nat. Ver. Bremen'' 8: 410. 1883.

Description

''Buddleja dysophylla'' is a straggling or scandent shrub, only erect if isolated, 1–10 m in height, with

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branching. The densely

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branchlets are terete to quadrangular, bearing opposite,

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leaves, triangular to ovate, 1–10 cm long by 0.7–7.5 cm wide,

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to rounded at the apex,

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into the petiole; the margins irregularly serrate–dentate to crenate–dentate. The lax terminal

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s are

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, 4–20 cm long by 4–20 cm wide. The corollas 2.5–5 mm long, the colour white, cream, or mauve.

Cultivation

''Buddleja dysophylla'' is only known to be in cultivation in Australia, at Longueville, and at the

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, where it flowers in August. It has also naturalized in the states of

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and

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References

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