Conocarpus

Shrubs or trees (mangroves); bark fissured; branches subangular to narrowly winged, pubescent when young. Leaves alternate, petiolate, somewhat fleshy, with 2 or 4 glands at base, entire, with domatia along midrib in axils of secondary veins. Flowers bisexual, small, crowded in dense, cone-shaped heads borne in racemes. Calyx : tube compressed, truncate, not prolonged above ovary; limb urceolate, 5(6)-lobed, deciduous. Petals absent. Stamens (5)7(10), in 2 whorls, exserted; filaments filiform, glabrous. Disc long-pubescent. Ovary inferior, 1-locular; ovules 2. Fruit a trapezoidal, samara-like, glabrous, brownish maroon achene with a corky pericarp. Seeds cylindric, curved, whitish.