Lumnitzera

Willd.
Source: 
SSA
Description: 
Mangroves: small evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, sessile or subsessile, somewhat fleshy and coriaceous. Flowers bisexual, regular, 5-merous, in short terminal spikes or racemes, red, white, pink or yellow. Receptacle not externally differentiated into an upper and lower part but produced beyond inferior ovary to form a tube bearing 2 adnate persistent bracteoles and terminating in a 5-lobed persistent calyx. Petals 5, caducous. Stamens 5-10, 2-seriate. Disc inconspicuous. Style filiform, persistent, not adnate to wall of receptacle, not expanded at apex. Ovary with 2-5 ovules. Fruit indehiscent, +/- woody, compressed-ellipsoid and obtusely angled, crowned by persistent calyx. Seeds: cotyledons unknown.
Distribution: 
Species 2, 1 in tropical Asia, Northern Australia and Polynesia, the other in eastern and sthn Afr., Madagascar and Polynesia: Lumnitzera racemosa Willd. in KwaZulu-Natal, associate in mangrove swamps.
Classification: 
COMBRETACEAE

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