Large to medium-sized trees with enlarged base by the buttresses formed by prop roots; bark black, rough, fissured in a regular checkered pattern; knee roots prominent. Leaves are crowded at the ends of branches; often reddish beneath, without black dots on the underside. Big solitary flowers red to scarlet (calyx); fruits cigar-shaped with red calyx cap.
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Bruguiera capensis Blume |
| synonym | Bruguiera rhedii Tul |
| synonym | Rhizophora gymnorhiza L |
| synonym | Rhizophora palun DC |
| synonym | Rhizophora tinctoria Blanco |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/
| Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
Habit: Large trees up to 20-30 m tall. The growth pattern corresponds to Aubreville’s model.
Roots: Short buttresses, knee-roots prominent as in B. cylindrica
Trunk & bark: Bark black, rough, fissured in a regular checkered pattern, with large corky lenticels.
Leaves: Leaves simple, entire, opposite, elliptic-oblong, bluntly pointed at apex, cuneate at base, glossy green on the upper surface and reddish below, 8-22 x 5-10 cm, coriaceous; stipules and petioles reddish; petiole up to 4 cm long.
Inflorescences or flowers: Flowers solitary, large, up to 3.5 cm long, regular, red to scarlet, calyx campanulate, (10-)12 – (14-)16 lobed; petals as many as calyx lobes, ciliate toward base; stamens enclosed in pairs by petals; style slender, filiform with 3 or 4 stigmatic lobes.
Fruits: Fruit with scarlet calyx and many long lobes not reflexed.
Seeds /seedling: Vivipary. Propagule with hypocotyl up to 25-30cm long, cigar-shaped, slightly angular, apex blunt.
Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/
| Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Ecology
On exposed shores where the mangrove belt is thin or depauperate.
Fruit remains attached to the seedling and dispersed with it. Germination modified epigeal, vivipary.
Pollination by butterflies and insects; pollen released by explosive mechanism, which is triggered by visiting pollinators.
Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/
| Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
No Data
📚 Habitat and Distribution
Description
Africa to Pacific islands through Egypt. Tropical Asia and Australia. In India occurs in tidal swamps along both the coast of the Peninsula and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/
| Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
No Data
📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
Hardwood termite resistant, stems used in building, fishing boats, houses, electric poles, charcoal making and the bark is rich in tannin. Leaves used as fodder, also eaten by large crabs; flowers are appreciated by monkeys and bats.
Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/
| Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
No Data
📚 Information Listing
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN)
Not Evaluated
Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/
| Attributions | Prosperi J., Ramesh B.R., Grard P., Jayatissa L.P., Aravajy S. & Depommier D. 2005. Mangroves v1.0. A Multimedia Identification System of Mangroves Species. IFP – CIRAD, Pondichéry, Pondy CD N°3. – CDRom. www.ifpindia.org/Mangroves/ |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
No Data
🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Malpighiales |
| Family | Rhizophoraceae |
| Genus | Bruguiera |
| Species | Bruguiera gymnorrhiza (L.) Lamk. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
📷 Related Observations
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