Common Name | Red Mangrove |
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Botanical Name | Rhizophora racemosa |
Trees up to 25 m. Leaves 7-14 × 3-8 cm, elliptical, the apex acute; petiole 1-3 cm; stipules 3.5-6 cm. Inflorescences branched dichotomously 5-6 times, or the first trichotomic branching, the branches rigid, robust, divaricated or almost divaricated; peduncle 10-40 mm; pedicels 3-20 mm; bracts 2 or 3, 5-20 mm, connate, the margins scarious, the apex acute to broadly acute; Bracteoles 2, 5-20 mm, connate, scarious margins, the apex acute to broadly acute.
Floriferous buds 6-10 mm, ellipsoid; sepals 7-10 × 2.5-3.5 mm on flowers, 12-15 × 5-7 mm on fruits, triangular; petals 5-6 × 0.5-1 mm, deciduous, glabrous abaxially, the margins villous; stamens 8, 3-6 mm, sessile, apiculate; style 3-6 mm. Fruit 25-35 × 12-15 mm; hypocotyl 11-35 cm, straight or curved. 2 n= 36.