Callicarpa mollis

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

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 4-6' apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 5.6 • Maximum pH: 7.8

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Light Shade.

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

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Willd. ex Schauer Publication : Prodr. (DC.) 11: 644 1847 [25 Nov 1847]

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

• Flora of Japan: in English: combined, much revised and extended translation / by the author of his Flora of Japan (1953) and Flora of Japan, Pteridophyta (1957); edited by Frederick G. Meyer and Egbert H. Walker. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1965. url p. 764.
• Materials for a flora of Formosa: supplementary notes to the Enumeratio plantarum Formosanarum and Flora montana Formosae / by B. Hayata. Tokyo, 1911 url p. 221.
• Miyabe-festschrift, or A collection of botanical papers presented to Prof. Dr. Kingo Miyabe on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his academic service by his friends and pupils. Tokio, Rokumeikwan, 1911. url p. 332.
• Phytologia memoirs. Plainfield, N.J.: H.N. Moldenke and A.L. Moldenke, 1980- url p. 267, p. 299, p. 300, p. 346, p. 527.
• Phytologia. 14 1966-1967 Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 140, p. 150, p. 203, p. 237, p. 241, p. 35, p. 380, p. 382, p. 41, p. 471, p. 472, p. 483, p. 498, p. 498, p. 499, p. 499, p. 499, p. 53, p. 75, p. 88.
• The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan = Tokyo Teikoku Daigaku kiyo. Rika. Tokyo, Japan: The University, 1898-1925. url p. 134, p. 21, p. 528.
• The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 26 1889-90 London: the Society: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green: ||Williams and Norgate, 1865-1968. url p. 254.
• 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 , .
• Winter botany, a companion volume to the author's Plant materials of decorative gardening, by William Trelease. .. Urbana, The author, 1918. url p. 331.
• Winter botany, by William Trelease. .. Urbana, The author, 1918. url p. 331.
• 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 December 04, 2007:

• Australian National Herbarium
• , Australian National Herbarium
• National Institute of Genetics, ROIS, Herbarium Specimens of Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo Pref., Japan

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3437106
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15531674
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:861410-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 861409-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 723708

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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