A new nothospecies in Lagerstroemia (Lythraceae) Author Whittemore, Alan T. US National Arboretum, 3501 New York Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20002 - 1958, USA Author Schori, Melanie 0000-0002-2801-635X National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, 10300 Baltimore Avenue, Building 003, Room 124, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA Melanie. Schori @ usda. gov; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2801 - 635 X chori@usda.gov text Phytotaxa 2022 2022-03-17 539 3 294 300 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.539.3.10 journal article 20199 10.11646/phytotaxa.539.3.10 cc5a129f-a9db-4ef9-bebd-ea873722bd17 1179-3163 6364052

TABLE 1. Characters of Lagerstroemia fauriei, L. × egolfii, and L. indica.

	L. fauriei	L. × egolfii	L. indica
Habit	Upright tree	Large shrub or small tree	Spreading low tree or large shrub
Height (m)	to 14	to 7	to 7
Limbs	upright	spreading or upright	spreading
Bark	bright orange-brown weathering to dull light or dark brown	white to bright orange-brown weathering to light or dark gray or brown	white weathering to light or medium gray or gray-brown
Twigs	terete, with 4 low, narrow, sometimes interrupted ridges	terete or 4-angled, weakly ridged	4-sided, 4-winged
Petiole length (mm)	5–10	1–3	0–2
Blade	elliptical to lance-ovate	obovate or elliptical	elliptical or obovate
Blade length (mm)	72–113	37–75	35–65
Secondary veins (on each side)	7–12	(4–)5–8	3–6
Leaf apex	acuminate	rounded, obtuse, or rather short-acuminate	rounded, obtuse, or bluntly short-acuminate
Inflorescence branches	puberulent, seldom glabrous	puberulent, sparsely bristly, or glabrous	sparsely to moderately bristly
Hypanthium veins	12 strong veins, extending to sinuses and along midlines of sepals	scarcely veined, or weakly 12- veined	6 veins extending to sinuses only, or no strong veins
Hypanthium length (mm)	2–3	(2–)3–5	4.0–5.5
Sepal length (mm)	1.5–2.0	2–4	2–3
Sepal shape	triangular	triangular	broadly triangular
Petal color	white	pale purple to purplish red, red, or white	pale purple to purplish red, red, or white
Petal blade length × width (mm)	2–5 × 2–6	5–11 × 7–10(–14)	5–10 × 7–14
Petal claw length (mm)	2.5–3.5	5–12	5–10
Capsule	ellipsoidal	spherical	spherical or short-ellipsoidal