• Family : LYTHRACEAE
  (Loose-Strife Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : MEHNDI FAMILY (मेंहंदी फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Lythraceae
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Lagerstroemia parviflora Roxb.
• Common name : Small flowered Crape Myrtle
• Vernacular name :
  • Lendia, Bakli, Sidi, Seina (Hindi)
  • Chennangi mara (Kannada)
  • Narinaaval, Mathara, Kadaa (Tamil)
  • Chinangi, Chennangi, Gullakaraka, Chinnagi (Telugu)
  • Chhena, Salora, Sidha (Oria)
  • Siddeshwara (Sanskrit)
  • Lendya (Marathi)
  • Cimanii, Malamaruthu, Venthekku (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Tropical moist deciduous forests, Tropical dry deciduous forests, also in plains
• Comments / notes : On hills above 500m in deciduous belt in full sun.
• Flower, Fruit : February-May; Fr. May onwards
• Collector(s) Name : Syed Maqsood Ahamed; K.R.Keshava Murthy, K.P.Sreenath
• Collection Date : 30-03-1978, 19-12-1978
• Collection Nos : KFP 495, KFP 5077
• Collection Locality : Melkote, Mandya district; Naryanadurga state forest, Melkote, Mandya district
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Vishakapatnam district, Nellore district, Chittoor district, West Godavari district, Srikakulam district
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Ballari district, Bidar district, Chikkamagaluru district, Chitradurga district, Davanagare district, Dharwad district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Idukki district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Akola district
  • Odisha : Throughout Odisha
  • Tamil Nadu : Throughout Tamil Nadu
  • Jharkhand :
  • Madhya Pradesh : Madhya Pradesh
  • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
  • Sikkim : Sikkim
  • West Bengal : Burdwan, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Midnapur, Purulia
  • Himachal Pradesh : Himachal Pradesh
  • Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
  • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
  • Assam : Assam
  • Nagaland : Nagaland
  • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
  • Jammu and Kashmir : Jammu and Kashmir
  • Mizoram : Mizoram
  • Manipur : Manipur
  • Tripura : Tripura
• Native : Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal
• Exotic/Native : Native
• World Distribution : Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature :
  • Pullaiah et al., 2007 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 3
  • J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1
  • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2
  • R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
  • R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
  • H. O. Saxena and M. Brahmam, 1989 - The Flora of Similipahar (Similipal), Orissa
  • N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka
  • Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
  • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI
  • Kamble & Pradhan, 1988. Flora of Akola District, Maharashtra. Botanical Survey of India
  • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District
  • Saldanha, C.J. (1996). Flora of Karnataka vol. 2. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
  • Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga District
  • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District
  • Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District
  • Indigenous Plants at Biodiversity Park, Ranchi - Ranchi Afforestation Division, Forest and Environmental Department, Jharkhand
• Read more :
  • Plants of the World Online
  • World Flora Online
  • Global Plants on JSTOR
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Lagerstroemia parviflora. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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