Buddleja madagascariensis

Evergreen, straggling or climbing shrub, 1.5–10 m high. Branches terete, with white stellate hairs (drying rusty). Petiole 10–25 mm long, with white stellate hairs. Leaves narrow-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 4–15 cm long, 1.5–7 cm wide, acuminate; base rounded, cuneate or rarely subcordate; margins entire; upper surface mid green and glabrous, lower surface densely hairy with white stellate hairs. Inflorescences terminal, thyrsoid, 10–25 cm long, often with long thyrsoid branches, flowers sessile to shortly pedicellate, sweetly scented. Calyx c. 3 mm long; lobes acute to obtuse, c. 0.6 mm long. Corolla dark yellow to orange; tube cylindrical, 7–10 mm long, densely stellate hairy outside, glabrous within; petal lobes subcircular, spreading. Stamens inserted just below corolla mouth; filaments < 0.6 mm long. Ovary hairy in the upper half. Fruit a berry (not seen in Victorian collection. Globose, 2.5–5 mm diam, blue-violet in the species). In Victoria, flowers observed in Mar., Aug.-Sep.