Buddleja salviifolia (L.) Lam.

Large evergreen shrub to c. 5 m high; shoots ± quadrangular when young. Lvs subsessile, 5–16–(20) × 1–3.5–(4.5) cm, lanceolate, bullate, with white or greyish felt-like indumentum beneath, dark green and glabrous above except when young, denticulate; base subcordate or cordate; apex acuminate; stipules 2–8 mm long, reflexed, foliaceous. Panicles terminal, to almost 15 cm long, pyramidal; peduncles and calyx with dense white indumentum. Fls sessile, very fragrant. Calyx 2–2.5 mm long; lobes imbricate, ovate, obtuse. Corolla tube 6–7 mm long, densely white-tomentose outside; lobes 2–2.5 mm long, ± oblong, mauve with orange eye, tomentose outside, bearded towards base inside. Stamens inserted near apex of tube, included; filaments hairy, free part < anthers. Style not reaching anthers, glabrous or nearly so; stigmas green. Capsule 2–3 mm long, subglobose, tomentose.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: Jun.–Sep.