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Lamiaceae Taxonomy Browser
Callicarpa tomentosa (L.) L.
EOL Text
"Trees, to 10 m high, bark 5-8 mm thick, brown, rough; blaze creamy-white with yellow streaks, becoming darker on exposure; branchlets fulvous tomentose. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 25-60 mm long, stout, tomentose; lamina 13-30 x 8-20 cm, ovate or elliptic, base truncate, acute or rounded, apex acuminate, margin entire or dentate, glabrous above except midrib, densely white stellate tomentose beneath, glaucous, chartaceous; lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, pinnate, arched, prominent, raised beneath; intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers bisexual, pinkish-purple, in axillary corymbose cymes, densely tomentose; calyx 2 mm long, campanulate, lobes 5; corolla 4 mm long, 5 mm across, tube short, lobes 4, spreading; stamens 4, exserted; filaments 6.5 mm, glandular; anthers sagitate; ovary globose, superior, pubescent, 2 locular, ovules 2 in each cell; style slender; stigma capitate. Fruit a drupe, globose, 3 mm across, glabrous, black; seeds 3-4, oblong, angular."
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Habit
Large shrubs or small trees ca. 5 m tall.
Trunk\bark
Bark grey, smooth.
Branchlets
Branchlets quadrangular, densely stellate tomentose.
Leaves
Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole 2.5-7.5 cm long, terete, densely white stellate tomentose; lamina 10.5-25 x 5.5-15 cm, elliptic to broadly elliptic or ovate, apex acute or acuminate, base acute, thinly coriaceous, glaucous, densely white stellate tomentose beneath; secondary nerves and reticulation impressed above; midrib raised above; secondary nerves 6-9 pairs; tertiary nerves distantly obliquely percurrent.
Flowers
Inflorescene branched cymes, axillary; flowers purple, sessile.
Fruit& seed
Drupe, globose, black, shining, 4 pyrenes; seeds 3-4.
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Habit: Small tree/shrub
"Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests, also in the plains"
Undergrowth in open disturbed evergreen to semi-evergreen forests up to 1400 m.
Flowering and fruiting: November-April
"Notes: Western Ghats & Eastern Ghats, Dry Deciduous to Moist Deciduous Forests"
Flowering class: Dicot Habit: Shrub to Small Tree
Undergrowth in open disturbed evergreen to semi-evergreen forests up to 1400 m.