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Common names: | Climbing buddleja (English) |
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Shrub, sometimes climbing, to 10 m or more. Stipules 0. Leaves opposite or subopposite, petiolate, entire but sometimes lobed; veins obscure. Inflorescence a lax panicle. Corolla white to pale orange with a darker orange or yellow throat; tube 3.7 to 6.5 times length of the lobes. Stamens included. Fruit a capsule. Seeds sometimes minutely winged. |
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Flowering time: | Jun - Aug |
Worldwide distribution: | Eastern tropical Africa and eastern South Africa. |
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Growth form(s): | Climber, shrub over 2 m. |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 117. (Includes a picture). Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 23. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 268. Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 172. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. (1983). Loganiaceae (inc. Buddlejaceae) Flora Zambesiaca 7(1) Pages 339 - 341. (Includes a picture). Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 58. Under Loganiaceae |
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