Callicarpa macrophylla Vahl

Indian material differs from Chinese collections in having glabrous ovaries.

Callicarpa nudiflora Hook. & Arn. (Callicarpa reevesii Wall. ex Schau.) (with peduncles lax, 3.5-6 cm long) and Callicarpa longifolia Lam. (with leaves sparsely pubescent on both surfaces and shorter cymes), very similar to this species, have been reported to be cultivated at Peshawer and Lahore by Parker (l.c. 393) and R.R. Stewart (l.c. 605) respectively.

Shrubs or small trees. Branchlets nearly 4-angled. Petiole robust, 1-3 cm, densely gray unevenly stellate tomentose; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, narrowly elliptic, or ovate-elliptic, 10-23 X 5-11 cm, abaxially densely unevenly gray stellate tomentose and glandular, adaxially pubescent especially on veins, base cuneate to broadly obtuse, margin serrulate. Cymes 4-8 cm across, densely unevenly gray stellate tomentose. Calyx ca. 1 mm, subtruncate, gray stellate tomentose, yellow glandular. Corolla purple, ca. 2.5 mm, sparsely stellate tomentose. Anthers yellow glandular. Ovary puberulent. Fruit ca. 1.5 mm in diam., puberulent, glandular. Fl. and fr. Apr-Dec.

Erect, evergreen shrub, 1-2(-3) m tall, densely and stellately woolly-tomentose on young branches, lower surface of leaves, petioles and peduncles. Leaves opposite, 10-25 (-30) cm long, (2.5-) 5-7.5 cm broad, ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, crenate, dark-green and glabrescent above, pale or dull and densely woolly below; petiole (6-)10-15(-20) mm long. Cymes axillary, dense, dichotomously branched, up to 5 cm long, including 1 2.5 cm long peduncles. Flowers c. 4 mm across, pink or reddish. Calyx c. 1.7 mm long, campanulate, minutely 4-toothed, densely pubescent. Corolla c. 2.5 mm long, with tube c. as long as the calyx; limb somewhat 2-lipped, with 4, short lobes. Stamens 4, exserted; anthers c. 0.8 mm long, ovate-oblong. Fruit globose, 2-3 mm in diameter, whitish, with a hard endocarp, usually breaking into four, 1-seeded pyrenes.

Himalaya (Kashmir to Bhutan), India, Burma, S. China, Indo-China.

Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam]

Distribution: Sub-Himalayan tracts of Pakistan, India and Bangla Desh.

300-1500 m

Mixed forests; 100-2000 m.

Callicarpa dunniana H. Léveillé; C. incana Roxburgh; C. macrophylla var. kouytchensis H. Léveillé.

Callicarpa macrophylla is a species of beautyberry native to the Indian subcontinent. Its fruits are small white drupes.