Callicarpa longifolia Lam.

Similar to Callicarpa acutifolia and C. giraldii var. subcanescens but differs in having smaller flowers and corolla lobes densely gray tomentellous.

Shrubs 2-3(-5) m tall. Branchlets 4-angled, nodes with a transverse scar. Petiole slender, 0.5-1.5 mm; leaf blade narrowly lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 8-20 X 2-6 cm, adaxially glabrous, base cuneate to narrowly cuneate, margin serrate, apex caudate-acuminate to cuneate, midvein and lateral veins abaxially very prominent. Cymes 2-3 cm across; peduncle slender, 0.5-1.5 cm. Calyx cup-shaped, ca. 1 mm, truncate to minutely 4-dentate, gray puberulent. Corolla pale purple, ca. 2 mm, slightly puberulent. Stamens 2-3 X as long as corolla; anthers ovate, ca. 1 mm. Ovary puberulent. Fruit ca. 1.5 mm in diam., stellate pubescent. Fl. May-Aug, fr. Aug-Dec.

Shrubs ca. 2 m tall. Branchlets nearly 4-angled, grooved, densely stellate pubescent, yellowish glandular. Petiole slender, 1-2.5 cm; leaf blade elliptic, 10-16 X 4-7 cm, stellate pubescent and yellowish glandular, base cuneate, apex acuminate, veins 7-9 pairs. Cymes 4-6 cm across, 5-7 branched; peduncle 0.6-1.5 cm. Calyx 0.7-1 mm, subtruncate, stellate pubescent, outside yellow glandular. Corolla 2-2.5 mm, densely gray tomentellous. Stamens exserted; anthers longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary stellate pubescent, yellow glandular. Fl. Aug.

Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan [India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam]

Yunnan (Jiangcheng Xian)

800-1700 m.

* Forests; ca. 1100 m.