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Common Names
Common Names in English:
American Beautyberry, American Beauty-Berry, Beauty-Berry, French-Mulberry
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
Habit: Shrub
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Vascular Plants
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Dicotyledons
- Order:
Lamiales
()
- Tribe:
Callicarpeae
()
- Genus:
Callicarpa
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Beautyberry
- Specific epithet:
americana
- Linnaeus
- Subspecies:
caroliniana
- Botanical name: - Callicarpa americana L. Linnaeus
- Subspecies:
caroliniana
- Specific epithet:
americana
- Linnaeus
- Genus:
Callicarpa
(
- Tribe:
Callicarpeae
(
- Order:
Lamiales
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
Notes
Place of publication
: Sp.
pl. 1:111. 1753
Name
verified on 20-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last
updated: 23-Aug-1994
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
- Clark, R. C. 1971. The woody plants of Alabama. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 58:232.
- Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago. (F Bahamas)
- Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. (F Tex)
- Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
- Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
- León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969 (F CubaLeon)
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
- Meyer, F. G. et al. 1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States. (L CultWPl SE US)
- Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas. (F Carolin)
- Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri. (F Missouri)
- 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.
- USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 26, 2008)
- USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
Identifiers
- GRIN Nomen Number: 8516
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 32144
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: CAAM21
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 26321
Footnotes
- "Callicarpa". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 4. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
