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Issue: Vol. 204 No. 3: 2 April 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-04-02
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.204.3.6
Page range: 230–234
Abstract views: 17
PDF downloaded: 1

Lagerstroemia densa (Lythraceae), a new species from Daqing Mountain, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomic Region, China

College of Landscape and Architecture, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Lin’an, Hangzhou, China, 311300 Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA, 80521
College of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Lin’an, Hangzhou, China, 311300
College of Landscape and Architecture, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Lin’an, Hangzhou, China, 311300
Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA, 80521
College of Landscape and Architecture, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Lin’an, Hangzhou, China, 311300 College of Horticulture, Henan Agriculture University, Zhengzhou, China, 450002 College of Life Science, Beijing University, China, 100871
Lagerstroemia Lythraceae Guangxi China

Abstract

The new species Lagerstroemia densa from Daqing Mountain, Chongzuo City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomic Region (China) is described and illustrated. The morphological characteristics of the new species and two morphologically similar species are compared. The new species resembles L. subcostata in leaf shape but differs mainly in petal color, floral tube morphology and indumentum, and the shape of the capsule, and is similar to L. excelsa in the shape of the floral tube lobes and inflorescences, from which it differs by its glabrous, acute leaves, racemiform inflorescences, and glabrous calyx lobes.