Callicarpa acuminata

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Callicarpa

Shrubs or trees , erect or rarely climbing ; hairs stellate , verticillately branched, dendritic , mealy tomentose , or rarely simple and hooked . Branchlets terete or 4-angled. Leaves opposite or in 3s. Cymes axillary , sessile or pedunculate ; bracts linear . Calyx campanulate , truncate or minutely 4-dentate, unaltered in fruit. Corolla actinomorphic , campanulate or tubular , lobes 4. Stamens 4, inserted on corolla tube ; filaments slender, often exserted; anthers ovate or oblong , dehiscing by longitudinal slits or circular pores . Ovary imperfectly 2-locular; ovules 2 per locule, attached to middle or distal part of ovary. Style usually longer than stamens; stigma usually dilated . Fruit a small globose drupe, endocarp bony, mesocarp fleshy , exocarp thin. Seeds small, oblong; seed coat membranous; cotyledons fleshy.

About 140 species: mainly in tropical and subtropical Asia, few in tropical America and Africa, and very few in temperate Asia and North America; 48 species in China.[1]

Physical Description

Biology

Growth

Culture: Space 6-8' apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b. (map)

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Roxb. Publication : Hort. Bengal. 10 (1814), nomen Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall., i. 408 (1820); Fl .Ind., ed. Carey, i. 394 (1832).

Similar Species

Members of the genus Callicarpa

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 21 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. acuminata (Beautyberry) · C. americana (American Beauty Berry) · C. americana caroliniana (American Beautyberry) · C. americana var. ampla (American Beautyberry) · C. ampla (Cap Rosa) · C. bodinieri (Bodinier Beautyberry) · C. bodinieri var. giraldii (Beautyberry) · C. bodinieri var. giraldii 'Profusion' (Beautyberry) · C. cathayana (China Beautyberry) · C. dichotoma (Chinese Beauty-Berry) · C. dichotoma 'Albifructus' (White Beautyberry) · C. dichotoma 'Early Amethyst' (Early Amethyst Purple Beautyberry) · C. dichotoma 'Issai' (Japanese Beautyberry) · C. japonica (Japanese Beautyberry) · C. japonica var. luxurians (Japanese Beautyberry) · C. japonica 'Issai' (Issai Purple Beautyberry) · C. japonica 'Leucocarpa' (Japanese Beautyberry) · C. japonica 'Zhou Zhou Fuchsia' (Japanese Beautyberry) · C. kwangtungensis (China Beautyberry) · C. mollis (Japanese Beautyberry) · C. shikokiana (China Beautyberry)

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Further Reading

• A contribution to the flora of Honduras, by T. G. Yuncker. 17 1938 Chicago, 1938. url p. 389.
• Biologia centrali-americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. London, Pub. for the editors by R. H. Porter and Dulau & co., 1879-88. url , , .
• Bulletin / Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington: G.P.O., 1901-1971. url p. 200, p. 220.
• Contribution [I]-III to the coastal and plain flora of Yucatan, by Charles Frederick Millspaugh. 1 1896 Chicago, 1895-1898. url p. 316, p. 42, p. vii.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 23 1920-1926 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 1253, p. 322.
• Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium. 8 1942 Ann Arbor: University Herbarium, University of Michigan, 1939- url p. 60, p. vii.
• Flora of Costa Rica. .. by Paul C. Standley. .. 18 1938 Chicago, 1937. url p. 999.
• Flora of Guatemala / Paul C. Standley and Louis O. Williams. 24 1973 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1973. url , p. 182, fig. 34, page 183.
• Flora of Peru / by J. Francis Macbride. 13 1960 Chicago, U.S.A.: Field Museum of Natural History, [1936] url p. 701.
• Flora of Yucatan, by Paul C. Standley. 3 1930 Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1930. url p. 399.
• Flora of the Lancetilla Valley, Honduras, by Paul C. Standley. 10 1931 Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1931. url p. 335.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 17 1997 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 211, p. 225.
• Phytologia memoirs. Plainfield, N.J.: H.N. Moldenke and A.L. Moldenke, 1980- url p. 104, p. 107, p. 114, p. 127, p. 132, p. 14, p. 173, p. 242, p. 266, p. 345, p. 376, p. 525, p. 60, p. 70, p. 73, p. 75, p. 77, p. 78, p. 80, p. 83, p. 85.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 101, p. 118, p. 14, p. 150, p. 191, p. 205, p. 210, p. 218, p. 219, p. 22, p. 256, p. 294, p. 309, p. 341, p. 375, p. 378, p. 378, p. 380, p. 381, p. 382, p. 41, p. 425, p. 431, p. 433, p. 451, p. 451, p. 467, p. 470, p. 471, p. 474, p. 475, p. 476, p. 487.
• Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Boston: Metcalf and Co., 1846-1958 url p. 185.
• Publication / Institute of Social Anthropology. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1944- url p. 339, p. 341.
• Studies in West Indian plants. New York, 1908-26. url p. 463.
• The Verbenaceæ of the Malayan archipelago: together with those from the Malayan peninsula, the Philippines, the Bismark-archipelago, and the Palau-, Marianne- and Caroline-islands. .. / Groningen: M. de Waal, 1919. url .
• The flora of British India /By J. D. Hooker assisted by various botanists. Published under the authority of the secretary of state for India in council. London: L. Reeve, 1875-97. url p. 491.
• The forests and flora of British Honduras / by Paul C. Standley and Samuel J. Record; in cooperation with the Conservator of Forests and the Agricultural Officer of the Colony. 12 1936 Chicago: [Field Museum of Natural History], 1936. url p. 340.
• Trees and shrubs of Mexico / By Paul C. Standley. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1920-1926. url p. 1253.
• Tulane studies in zoology and botany. 30 1995 New Orleans: Tulane University, [1968- url p. 24.
• Wrightia. 7 1981-1984 Richardson, Tex. [etc.]University of Texas at Dallas. url p. 159, p. 213.
• P'ei Chien & Chen Shou-liang, eds. 1982. Verbenaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 65(1): 1-229.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 05, 2008:

• Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen: Biologiezentrum Linz
• Botanical Research Institute of Texas: Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad: Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México (IE-BAJIO)
• Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad: Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México (IE-XAL)
• GBIF-Spain: Real Jardin Botanico (Madrid), Vascular Plant Herbarium (MA)
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus: The AAU Herbarium Database
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Costa Rica): Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• University of Vienna, Institute for Botany - Herbarium WU: Herbarium WU

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3437095
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:861229-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 861229-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 723698

Footnotes

1. "Callicarpa". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 4. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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