| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Sonneratiaceae |
| Synonym | Rhizophora caseolaris L. |
| Local Name | Blatti |
| Habit | Small sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Evergreen trees, to 8 m high; pneumatophores 1 m long and 6 cm diameter, straight, stout, corky, conical, brownish grey or orange-coloured, outer thin layer flaky; bark brown, cracked; branchlets pendulous; angled, greenish-brown, glabrous; nodes swollen with 2 lateral pair of circular glands. Leaves simple, opposite-decussate, estipulate; petiole 5-10 mm long, stout, red, glabrous; lamina 4-11 x 3.5-6.5 cm, broadly ovate or broadly elliptic, base cuneate, apex mucronate, emarginate or obtuse, glabrous, coriaceous, thick, slightly fleshy, green; lateral veins 10-15 pairs, parallel, Flowers bisexual, pink, 6 x 5-7 cm, terminal, solitary; fruit a drupe, 7 cm across, globose, slightly flattened, seeds many, embedded in the fleshy pulp of the placenta. |