Buddleja saligna

False olive
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Scrophulariaceae
Genus: Buddleja
Species:
B. saligna
Binomial name
Buddleja saligna
Synonyms
  • Buddleja salicifolia Jacq.
  • Callicarpa paniculata Lam.
  • Chilianthus arboreus (L.f.), Benth.
  • Chilianthus arboreus var. rosmarinaceusO. Kuntze
  • Chilianthus oleaceus Burchell
  • Nuxia saligna (Willd.) Benth.
  • Semnos paniculata (Lam.) Rafinesque
  • Scoparia arborea L.

Buddleja saligna, the false olive or bastard olive, is native to South Africa and Zimbabwe, where it has a wide distribution. It occurs most often in ravines and against outcrops, and is distributed from coastal elevations to the central plateau at elevations of < 2000 m. The species was first described and named by Willdenow in 1809.[1][2]

  1. ^ Willdenow, C. L. (1809). Enum. Hort. Berol. 1:159, 1809.
  2. ^ Leeuwenberg, A. J. M. (1979) The Loganiaceae of Africa XVIII Buddleja L. II, Revision of the African & Asiatic species. H. Veenman & Zonen, Wageningen, Nederland