Callicarpa macrophylla

It is an erect bushy shrub, 2 to 2.5 m tall, branches virgate, usually shaggy as well as with tomentose tips. The leaves are long, acuminate, base cuneate or rounded. white tomentose beneath with compound stellate hai The petiole is long.Flowers season is in July to November.

Flowers are pink in color and crowded in axillary peduncled globose cymes. Flowers are bisexual and fragrant. Fruit is drupe and white containing one-seeded nutlets.A decoction of the leaves is used in the treatment of diarrhea, dysentery and gastrointestinal bleeding. A juice made from the leaves mixed with equal portions of Drymaria Diandra and Oxalis corniculata is used in the treatment of gastric troubles. The leaves are heated and applied as a poultice to ease the pain of rheumatic joints.