大叶紫珠 da ye zi zhu

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

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.

Mixed forests; 100-2000 m. Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam]

Indian material differs from Chinese collections in having glabrous ovaries.