Vasilis Teodoridis:
Verbenaceae | Callicarpa
6. Callicarpa nudiflora Vahl; Bot. Beechey Voy. 206. 1836.
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Callicarpa acuminata Roxburgh (1832); not Kunth (1818); C. acuminata var. angustifolia Metcalf; C. macro-phylla Vahl var. sinensis C. B. Clarke; C. reevesii Wallich ex Schauer.
Shrubs or small trees; young branchlets; petioles; abaxial leaf surfaces; and inflorescences unevenly gray-brown stellate tomentose. Leaf blade ovate-elliptic to lanceolate; 12-22 X 4-7 cm; abaxially densely gray-brown unevenly stellate tomentose; adaxially dark green-black and glabrescent except for stellate tomentose veins; base obtuse to subrounded; margin serrate; slightly undulate; or subentire. Cymes 8-13 cm across; peduncle 3-8 cm; bracts linear-lanceolate. Pedicel ca. 1 mm. Calyx usually glabrous; truncate to obscurely 4-dentate. Corolla purple to pink; ca. 2 mm; glabrous. Stamens 2-3 X as long as corolla. Ovary glabrous. Fruit ca. 2 mm in diam. Fl. Jun-Aug; fr. Aug-Dec.
Mixed forests; ca. 1000 m. Guangdong; Guangxi; Hainan [Bangladesh; India; Malaysia; Myanmar; Singapore; Sri Lanka; Vietnam]
Medicinal.