Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Lagerstroemia indica Lythrum alatum var. alatum Lythrum portula

Shrubs or small trees, terrestrial, 30–70 dm, outer bark whitish, smooth, flaking in thin plates, inner bark light-brown or coral, glabrous or puberulent. Stems erect, branched. Leaves usually alternate or subalternate; subsessile [petiolate]; blade obovate or elliptic [lanceolate, oblong], base rounded or cuneate [attenuate]. Inflorescences determinate, terminal or axillary panicles. Flowers subsessile, actinomorphic, monostylous; floral-tube perigynous, campanulate [semiglobose to turbinate], externally smooth [ridged]; epicalyx segments absent; sepals (5 or) 6 (or 7), 1/3–1/2 floral-tube length; petals caducous or deciduous, (5 or) 6 (or 7) [–9], rose, purple, or white, obovate to orbiculate, often clawed; nectary absent; stamens 36–42 [–200], dimorphic [uniform]; ovary (3–) 6-locular; placenta elongate; style slender; stigma capitate to punctiform. Fruits capsules, woody, dehiscence loculicidal. Seeds ca. 20–50, obpyramidal, unilaterally winged from raphe; cotyledons rolled.

Distribution

Introduced; Asia, Pacific Islands, n Australia, also widely in tropical and subtropical areas

Discussion

Species ca. 56 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Lagerstroemia indica

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