Lagerstroemia indica

Shrubs or small trees, to 7 m tall. Branchlets slender, 4-angled or subulate, puberulous, glabrescent. Leaves sessile or with petiole to approximately 2 mm, leaf blade elliptic, oblong, obovate, or suborbicular, typically at least some suborbicular to obovate and mucronate, 2.5 Ð 7 ? 1.5 Ð 4 cm, papery to slightly leathery, glabrous or with slight indumentum on veins abaxially, lateral veins 3-7 pairs, base broadly cuneate to rounded, apex acute, obtuse with small mucro, or retuse. Panicles sub-pyramidal, 7 Ð 20 cm, puberulous, densely flowered. Floral tube 6-merous, 7Ð11 mm, smooth walled or obscurely to decidedly 6-ribbed, glabrous, sepals 3.5 Ð 5.5 mm, adaxially glabrous, annulus present, epicalyx absent. Petals purple, fuchsia, pink, or white, orbicular, 1.2-2 cm including claw 6-9 mm. Stamens 36 Ð 42, dimorphic. Ovary glabrous. Capsules ellipsoidal, 1Ð1.3 ? 0.7Ð1.2 cm, 4Ð6 valved. Seeds including wing approximately 8 mm (Flora of China Editorial Committee, 2014).