Callicarpa purpurea

• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

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]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Hort. ex Lem. Publication : Ill. Hort. vi. t. 202 (1859), non olim .

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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Notes

Contributors

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

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2777688
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4024634

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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