Habit: Shrub
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Lagerstroemia chinensis L. |
| synonym | Lagerstroemia elegans Wall. ex Paxt. |
| synonym | Lagerstroemia pulchra Salisb. |
| synonym | Murtughas indica (L.) Kuntze |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
Growth Form
Tree
Shrubs, up to 10 m tall; bark greyish white, smooth; branchlets slender, 4-angled or subalate, puberulous, glabrescent. Leaves simple, subsessile or with petiole up to ca. 0.2 mm; lamina ca. 3-7 x 2-3.5 cm, oblong or obovate, obovate-orbicular, cuneate or narrow at base, subobtuse or subacute at apex, entire, glabrous on both sides at maturity, slightly coriaceous. Panicles subpyramidal, ca. 10-20 cm long puberulous; flowers ca. 2-3 cm across, attractive, pink, rose or white; petals ca. 1-1.5 cm long, suborbicular, clawed with much crisped margins; claw slender, ca. 0.8 cm long. Capsules ca. 1 cm across, obconic.
French Institute of Pondicherry
| Attributions | French Institute of Pondicherry |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Plains to Low Altitude, Cultivated
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
Description
Karnataka: Mysore
Kerala: All districts
Tamil Nadu: All districts
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Global Distribution
India: Assam, Maharastra; China
Local Distribution
Throughout Assam
Global Distribution
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
Indian Distribution
Assam, Maharashtra
Assam Distribution
Throughout Assam
French Institute of Pondicherry
| Attributions | French Institute of Pondicherry |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Siddha
Traditional chinese medicine
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Siddha, Traditional chinese medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1277
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1277 |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1277
- Singh, N.P., Singh, K.P., Singh, D.K. 2002. Flora of Mizoram: Vol. I: 612, Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983
Information Listing > References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1277
- Singh, N.P., Singh, K.P., Singh, D.K. 2002. Flora of Mizoram: Vol. I: 612, Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Myrtales |
| Family | Lythraceae |
| Genus | Lagerstroemia |
| Species | Lagerstroemia indica L. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
📷 Related Observations
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