细花紫珠 xi hua zi zhu

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.

* Forests; ca. 1100 m. Yunnan (Jiangcheng Xian)

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