Lagerstroemia speciosa (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Lagerstroemia speciosa (L.) Pers.

Synonyms

Lagerstroemia flos-reginae Retz.

Vernacular names

• Pride of India, queen of flowers (En)
• Indonesia: bungur (general), bungur tekuyung (Palembang, Sumatra), ketangi (Javanese)
• Malaysia: bungor raya (Peninsular), bongor biru (Malay, Sarawak), tibabah (Dusun Banggi, Sabah)
• Philippines: banaba (Filipino). Burma (Myanmar): gawkng-uchyamang
• Vietnam: bằng lăng nước
• Thailand: chuang-muu, tabaek dam (central), inthanin nam (central, peninsular).

Distribution

Burma (Myanmar), Indo-China, China, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, the Philippines and Sulawesi; also cultivated within this region and in many other tropical countries.