Buddleja L.
Shrubs, rarely scrambling, or small trees, evergreen or deciduous; indumentum glandular, stellate or lepidote. Lvs usually opposite, entire or toothed, with a stipular ridge connecting the lf pair, or occasionally stipules well-developed. Fls usually in dense panicles, sometimes in racemes, spikes or globular heads; peduncle ± quadrangular. Calyx campanulate. Corolla funnelform or campanulate, usually narrowly so; limb usually < tube and patent. Fr. usually a 2-valved septicidal capsule, rarely a berry; calyx and corolla often persistent. Seeds numerous, minute.
Key
c. 120 spp., warm temperate and tropical, especially E. Asia. Naturalised spp. 5.
This treatment accepts Chilianthus Burchell (a few South African spp. with calyx deeply lobed, and exserted anthers on long filaments) and Nicodemia Ten. (spp. from Madagascar and the Mascarenes with capitate cymes in slender panicles and fr. a blackish berry) as part of Buddleja sens. lat.
