| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Rhizophoraceae |
| Local Name | Panachikandal |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Evergreen trees, branches horizontal; trunk and lower branches supported by numerous profusely looping stilt-roots and prop roots, lenticellate, bark brown, longitudinally fissured; branchlets, terete, brownish-green, glabrous, with prominent, rough, thick, brown layer of stipular scar, prominent. Leaves simple, opposite decussate, stipulate, clustered at the shoot apex; stipules 2, interpetiolar, 6 x 1.2 cm, pale green with pinkish tinge, overlapping the apical bud, subcylindric; petiole 25-35 mm long, stout, glabrous, grooved above, pale green; lamina 12.5-14.5 x 5.5-8.5 cm, elliptic-ovate, base cuneate, apex mucronate, glabrous, coriaceous, green above, pale green beneath with numerous black dots; lateral veins 8-9 pairs, pinnate, flowers yellowish-white, fruit a drupe, 5-7 cm long, ovoid or conoid, pericarp brown, thick, leathery, glabrous, seed one. |
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