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5. Lagerstroemia floribunda Jackwfo-0000366785

Malayan Misc. 1(5): 38. 1820; Gagnep., Fl. Indo-Chine [P.H.Lecomte et al.] 2: 953. 1921; Craib, Fl. Siam. 1: 721. 1931; Furtado & Srisuko, Gard. Bull. Singapore 24: 329, f. 55–56. 1969; P.H.Hô, Ill. Fl. Vietnam 2(1): 29, f. 3675. 1992; S.Gardner, Sidisunthorn & Anusarnsunthorn, Field Guide Forest Trees Northern Thailand: 204: 445. 2000. Plate CXVII: 1–4.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

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Description : Shrubs or small trees 4–25 m tall; bark of trunk brown grey, thin, peeling or flaking (tabaek). Leaves: petiole 0.2–0.7 cm long; lamina glabrous, glabrescent beneath, variable in shape and size, 6–20 by 2–10 cm; lateral veins (5–)8–12 on each side; intercostal venation reticulate or finely scalariform. Inflorescences terminal, lax, 20–50 cm long, wholly densely short-hairy, hairs rust coloured, stellate. Flowers: bud densely short-hairy, obconical or obovate, 5–7 mm long, mostly flat at apex, often with a nipple (5-cleft to 2 mm deep), pseudopedicel 2–4 mm long; calyx tube 5–6 mm long, distinctly ca 12 ridged or rarely inconspicuously ridged, without auricles or with an auricle at each sinus between the calyx lobes, auricles patent; calyx lobes hairy within, 3–4 mm long; petals violet or pink, fading white with age, blade oblong, 8–15 mm long, margin entire, mostly undulate, claw 2–3 mm long; stamens asymmetrically dimorphic (outer 6 or 7 stamens longer than inner ones and directed towards a gap between the petals); ovary densely hairy. Capsules dark brown or blackish, smooth (not shagreen), hairy, especially at apex, 12–18 mm long, 5- or 6-valved; fruiting calyx tube with 12–14 blunt or sharp ridges, calyx lobes in upper half hairy within, thin, mostly reflexed, without auricles or with inconspicuous auricles at the sinuses between the calyx lobes; fruiting pseudopedicel 2–5 mm long.