抽芽紫珠 chou ya zi zhu

Shrubs ca. 2 m tall. Branchlets dark brown, terete, with gray lenticels and gray-brown stellate hairs. Leaf blade oblong-lanceolate to ovate or lanceolate, abaxially with stellate hairs along veins, margin entire, slightly sinuate, or serrulate, apex acuminate to caudate-acuminate. Cymes ca. 1 cm across, with branchlets growing out from them, with yellow-brown stellate hairs; peduncle slender, as long as pedicels; bracts linear, ca. 2 mm. Calyx subtruncate, glabrous. Corolla purplish; tube ca. 2 mm, glabrous. Stamens ca. 4 mm; anthers elliptic, ca. 1.2 mm. Fruit purple, 2-3 mm in diam., glabrous, yellow glandular. Fr. autumn.

* 900-2200 m. Guangxi, Yunnan

Lower Taxa

• Callicarpa prolifera var. prolifera
• Callicarpa prolifera var. rubroglandulosa S. L. Chen