| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Rhizophoraceae |
| Synonym | Rhizophora sexangula Lour. |
| Synonym_2 | Bruguiera eriopetala Wright &Arn. |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Evergreen trees, bole occasionally buttressed sometimes with stilt roots, underground roots produce numerous knee roots; bark grey to pale brown, with few large corky lenticels; branchlets terete, glabrous, reddish-green, brown stipular scar enclosing the node. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, stipulate; stipules interpetiolar, 3-4 cm long, green or yellowish; petiole 18-35 mm long, stout, terete, grooved above, orange-yellow; lamina 8-13 ×4-6 cm, elliptic to elliptic-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, base cuneate, apex acute, glabrous, coriaceous, reddish-green above, pale green beneath; lateral nerves 9-10 pairs, flowers bisexual, reddish-orange, fruit a drupe, reddish-green, 2-2.5 cm long; seed one;cylindric, with blunt tip, surface slightly ridged. |