Lagerstroemia tomentosa C.Presl

De Wilde, Willem J. J. O. & Duyfjes, Brigitta E. E., 2016, Survey of Lagerstroemia L. (Lythraceae) in Indochina (excl. Thailand) with the description of Lagerstroemia densiflora, sp. nov., a new species from Vietnam, Adansonia 38 (2), pp. 241-255 : 252

19. Lagerstroemia tomentosa C.Presl

Botanische Bemerkungen: 142 (1844) ; Abhandlungen der Königlichen Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften ser. 5, 3: 572 (1845). — Gagnep., Flore générale de l’Indo-Chine 2: 958 (1921). — Craib, Florae Siamensis Enumeratio 1: 726 (1931). — Furtado & Srisuko, Garden’s Bulletin Singapore 24: 292, fig. 40 (1969). — P.H. Hô, An Illustrated Flora of Vietnam 2 (1): 27, fig. 3668 (1992). — S. Gardner et al., A Field Guide to Forest Trees of Northern Thailand: 204: 444 (2000). — H.N. Qin & S.A. Graham, Flora of China 13: 278 (2007). — H.N. Qin et al., Flora of China Illustrations: 13, fig. 297: 6-8 (2008). — W.J. de Wilde et al., Flora of Thailand 11 (4): 576, fig. 8 (2014). — Type: Myanmar, Moulmein, Helfer herb. Martaban 257 (holo-, PRC!; iso-, GH!, see note).

Lagerstroemia tomentosa C.Presl var. caudata Koehne, Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik , Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 42 (Beiblätter 97): 51 (1908). — Craib , Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information 1911: 54 (1911). — Florae Siamensis Enumeratio 1: 727 (1931). — Lectotype (designated by Craib, 1931): Thailand, Hosseus 512, (holo-, M!; isolecto-, BM!, E!, L!, P[ P 05141599 ]!).

SPOT- CHARACTERS. — Bark finely or roughly cracking; leaf blade stellate hairy beneath, venation scalariform; inflorescence finely hairy, often lateral (axillary); calyx tube ridged; stamens radially dimorphic; capsules black, glossy, smooth.

DISTRIBUTION. — Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, China (Yunnan).

NOTE

According to Furtado & Srisuko (1969) the collection Reliquiae helferianae 30 ( BM!, BO!, L!, P [ P 05141602]!), is probably the same as Helfer 257, however, Helfer 30 is annotated on the label as occurring in “ India orientalis, in Bengalia circa Calcuttam“ .