✿Lythraceae · Lagerstroemia
Dhaura / Small Flowered Crape Myrtle
Lagerstroemia parviflora
Tree
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka & more
- Flowering
- February-May; Fr. May onwards
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Lagerstroemia parviflora
- Genus
- Lagerstroemia
- Family
- Lythraceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Moist and dry deciduous forests, also in plains
- Habitat type
- Forest
- Distribution
- Tropical Himalayas, India, Myanmar, Java
- Found in India
- Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Meghalaya, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh
- Flowering & fruiting
- February-May; Fr. May onwards
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical)
- Fruit
- Berry
Characters marked “recorded” are for Dhaura itself; the rest are typical of the Lythraceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- Dhaura, Lendia, Bakli
- Nepali
- बोट धयाँरो Bot Dhayanro, हाडे Haade
- Tamil
- Chenangi, Chinnanchi, Kaccaikkattai
- Kannada
- ಚನ್ನಂಗಿ Chanangi, ಚನ್ನಂಗ Channanga, Ventaku
- Malayalam
- Ventekku, Cheemangi
- Marathi
- Lende, Bondga, Bondara, बोंडारा
About Dhaura
A member of the Lythraceae family, Small flowered Crape Myrtle (Lagerstroemia parviflora) is a tree. In India it has been recorded in Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka and 15 other states. It grows in moist and dry deciduous forests, also in plains. Flowering and fruiting run from February to May; Fr. May onwards.
Botanical family
Lythraceae
Loosestrife/Henna family
Dhaura belongs to the Lythraceae family.
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