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Lagerstroemia fordii; photograph author not stated, no rights reserved CC0author not stated, no rights reserved · observed growing wild · 2026-04-25

Lagerstroemia fordii Koehne

Lythraceae · China Southeast

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Lagerstroemia fordii Koehne: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Oliv. & Koehne.

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About the genus · Lagerstroemia

Lagerstroemia, commonly known as crape myrtle, is a genus of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs native to the Indian subcontinent, southeast Asia, northern Australia, and other parts of Oceania, cultivated in warmer climates around the world. It is a member of the family Lythraceae, which is also known as the loosestrife family. These flowering trees are often planted both privately and commercially as ornamentals.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Lagerstroemia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 6 of the 10 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina Southeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker23.37, 114.26 · in the densest population, 8 records (80% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 10 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 3 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 124 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 10 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (3).

Other Lagerstroemia 16 in the reference

Lagerstroemia calyculata Lagerstroemia calyculata Sralao Photo: CC0, author not statedLagerstroemia caudata Lagerstroemia caudata Lythraceae Photo: CC0, Eine süße KatzeLagerstroemia duperreana Lagerstroemia duperreana Lythraceae Photo: CC BY, Sabarni SarkerLagerstroemia engleriana Lagerstroemia engleriana Lythraceae Photo: CC BY, Forest and Kim StarrLagerstroemia floribunda Lagerstroemia floribunda Thai Crape-Myrtle Photo: CC BY, scallionsLagerstroemia indica Lagerstroemia indica Crape-myrtle Photo: CC0, author not stated Lagerstroemia langkawiensis Lythraceae Lagerstroemia limii Lagerstroemia limii Lythraceae Photo: CC BY, Kim, Hyun-taeLagerstroemia loudonii Lagerstroemia loudonii Lythraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Xufanc Lagerstroemia macrocarpa Lythraceae Lagerstroemia microcarpa Lagerstroemia microcarpa Lythraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Dinesh ValkeLagerstroemia noei Lagerstroemia noei Noei's Crape-myrtle Photo: CC0, Pawin Chan all 17 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Lythraceae
Described by
Koehne
Native to
China Southeast
Wild records
10 in range · 3 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 3988922 is Lagerstroemia fordii Oliv. & Koehne; the page links Kew's Lagerstroemia fordii Koehne, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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