Callicarpa macrophylla Vahl

Callicarpa species are undershrubs, shrubs or trees. Stems acutely or obtusely 4 angular. Leaves decussate-opposite, simple, ternate, exstipulate, subsessile or petiolate. Inflorescence axillary, cymose, solitary, pedunculate or sessile. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, fragrant. calyx, 4 or rarely 5 toothed, pubescent, corolla infundibular or hypocrateriform, 4 or rarely 5 lobed. stamens 4, exserted, anthers oblong 2 loculed, dorsifixed, pistil 2-carpellary, ovary superior, 4 lobed, 4 loculed, 1 ovule in each locule, style short, stigma 2 lobed. Fruit drupe.

Callicarpa species flowers are bisexual, i.e., with functional male (androecium) and female (gynoecium), including stamens, carpels and ovary. Pollination is entomophilous i.e., by insects. Flowering/Fruiting: Almost throughout the year.

Seeds dispersed anemochory i.e., wind dispersal, zoochory i.e., dispersal by birds and animals, anthropochory i.e., dispersal by humans.

Spreading shrub, about 5-15 ft tall. Stem brown, thin smooth, stem and branches obtusely 4 angular, young parts stellately woolly, glabrous when mature, annulate nodes, internodes 1-5 cm long, Leaves opposite, simple, lanceolate-elliptic or lanceolate-oblong, 10-24 x 3-10 cm across, base acute, margin crenate-serrate except near the base and apex, acuminate at the apex, chartaceous or subcoriaceous, dark green sparsely pubescent on the dorsal side, densely pubescent, grayish-green stellate tomentose beneath, stellate-pubescent along the veins, lateral veins 10-16 on either side of the midrib, arcuate at margins, impressed above and prominent beneath, petiole slender, robust, canaliculated, about 0.4-2 cm long, tomentose, exstipulate. Inflorescence in corymbs, axillary, dichotomously branched, peduncle 2-3 cm long, obtusely 4 angular, stellate-pubescent, bracts linear, Flowers bisexual, numerous, fragrant, calyx cupular, weakly 4 lobed, teeth acute, densely stellate-pubescent outside, corolla infundibular, 4 lobed, rose pink, lobes subequal, obovate, corolla tube narrow, about 2 mm long, pubescent, stamens 4 exserted, inserted near the base of corolla, filaments filiform, anthers oblong, ovary superior, globose, 4 lobed, 4 loculed, 1 ovule in each locule, about 0.5 mm long, style glabrous, stigma capitate, Fruit drupe, globose or subglobose about 2-2.5 mm in diameter, succulent, green and white or purple when ripe.

Susceptible to insect pests.

Secondary forests, along rivers and cultivated.

Open fields, disturbed sites

Used in traditional medicine and fuel.