Description :

• Shrubs, erect, bushy, scrambling or climbing, sometimes trees; pubescence often scaly or stellate
• Leaves opposite or occasionally subopposite
• Inflorescence of many-flowered, terminal and axillary, paniculate cymes, occasionally cymes congested into subglobose heads
• Calyx pubescent without, glabrous within, persistent
• Corolla : tube short to long, campanulate to cylindric, sometimes bearded in throat; lobes imbricate, becoming strongly recurved from above base
• Stamens arising on corolla tube at or near throat, included to long-exserted; anther thecae distinct, ± parallel
• Ovary pubescent
• Capsules small, ovoid, obovoid or oblong, sometimes 2-lobed, shortly or long-exserted from persistent calyx
• Seeds oblong, compressed
• x = 19 (high polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

• Buddleja L.
  • Linnaeus: 112 (1753)
  • Verdoorn: 159 (1963) as Buddleia
  • Leeuwenberg: 333 (1983)
• Chilianthus Burch.
  • Burchell: 94 (1822)

Distribution & Notes:

• Global : Species ± 100, Africa, Asia and America
• Southern Africa : Species 7, widespread