| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Rhizophoraceae |
| Local Name | Kaya kandel |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Evergreen trees, trunk and lower branches supported by numerous profusely looping stilt roots and prop roots corky, lenticellate; bark brown, fissured; branchlets terete, glabrous, reddish-brown or greyish-white, with conspicuous circular, scaly, brown stipular scar. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, clustered towards the apex; stipules interpetiolar, 9 x 1.5 cm, pale red; petiole 20-30 mm long, stout, grooved above, pale green, glabrous; lamina 13-17 x 4-7 cm, elliptic, oblong, oblanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, base cuneate, apex apiculate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous, dark, green above, pale green beneath; lateral nerves 10-15 pairs, slender, pinnate, flowers greenish-white, fruit a drupe, 2-4 cm long, conical, pericarp brown, thick, leathery, seed one. |