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Lagerstroemia (crepe myrtle)

Angiospermae - Myrtales - Lythraceae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1753Lagerstroemia Linnaeus
1976Lagerstroemia Lakhanpal et al.
1991Lagerstroemia Chauhan
1991Lagerstroemia Srivastava
1993Lagerstroemia Antal and Awasthi
2008Lagerstroemia Prasad
2017Lagerstroemia Prasad et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomPlantae
phylumSpermatophyta
classAngiospermae
classDicotyledoneae
RankNameAuthor
orderMyrtalesJussieu 1820
familyLythraceaeSaint-Hilaire 1805
genusLagerstroemia

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Lagerstroemia Linnaeus 1753 [crepe myrtle]
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Lagerstroemia eomicrocarpa Dwivedi et al. 2006
Lagerstroemia indica Linnaeus 1759
Lagerstroemia jamraniensis Prasad et al. 2004
Lagerstroemia mioparviflora Dwivedi et al. 2006
Lagerstroemia patelii Lahkanpal and Guleria 1987
Lagerstroemia prakashii Prasad et al. 2017
Lagerstroemia siwalica Prasad 1994
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Diet: "photoautotroph"p
Created: 2011-07-22 00:04:15
Modified: 2011-07-21 09:04:15
Source: p = phylum
Reference: Kiessling 2009

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Eocene to the top of the Early/Lower Pleistocene or 55.80000 to 0.78100 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 48.6 Ma

Collections (13 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Paleogene66.0 - 23.03India (Maharashtra) Lagerstroemia indica (225287)
Paleogene66.0 - 23.03India (Madhya Pradesh) Lagerstroemia indica (224606)
Early/Lower Eocene55.8 - 48.6India (Gujarat) Lagerstroemia patelii (227856)
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9Myanmar (Sagaing) Lagerstroemia sp. (227714)
Miocene23.03 - 5.333Nepal Lagerstroemia siwalica, Lagerstroemia mioparviflora, Lagerstroemia eomicrocarpa (222898)
Miocene - Pliocene23.03 - 2.588India (Himachal Pradesh) Lagerstroemia sp. (222792)
Miocene - Pliocene23.03 - 2.588India (West Bengal) Lagerstroemia patelii (223487)
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608India (Uttarakhand) Lagerstroemia mioparviflora (224500) Lagerstroemia patelii, Lagerstroemia jamraniensis (222797) Lagerstroemia prakashii (224493)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588India (Jharkhand) Lagerstroemia sp. (214996)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Japan (Tokyo) Lagerstroemia indica (224546)
Quaternary2.58 - 0.0India (Uttarakhand) Lagerstroemia sp. (228809)