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Bruguiera sexangula
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Family:
RHIZOPHORACEAE
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Citation: Bruguiera sexangula (Lour.) Poir. in Lam., Encycl. Suppl. 4: 262. 1816; Anupama & Sivad., Rheedea 14: 22. 2004.
Rhizophora sexangula Lour., Fl. Cochinch. 297. 1790.
Bruguiera eriopetala Wight & Arn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 1: 368. 1838; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 438. 1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 458(325). 1919.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Swarnakandal
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Description:
Evergreen trees, to 6 m high; bole occasionally buttressed sometimes with stilt roots, underground roots produce numerous knee roots; bark grey to pale brown, with few large corky lenticels; branchlets terete, glabrous, reddish-green, with conspicuous narrow thin, brown stipular scar enclosing the node. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, stipulate; stipules interpetiolar, 3-4 cm long, green or yellowish; petiole 18-35 mm long, stout, terete, grooved above, orange-yellow; lamina 8-13 ×4-6 cm, elliptic to elliptic-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, base cuneate, apex acute, glabrous, coriaceous, reddish-green above, pale green beneath; lateral nerves 9-10 pairs, pinnate, slender, obscure, intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers bisexual, reddish-orange, 2.5-3.5-2.6 cm long, axillary, solitary, drooping, pedicels 6-12 mm long, stout, glabrous, yellow or brownish; calyx tube ribbed to the base, glabrous, lobes 10-14, to 1.8 cm long, narrow, thick, fleshy, glabrous, persistent; petals 10-14, free, to 1.5 cm long, shortly stalked, white when young, changing gradually to brown, deeply bilobed with a bristle in the snius of the lobes; lobes equal, tip acute with vestiges of 1-3 cilia on each, outer margin of the petal fringed from the base to the apex with dense, stiff, white, silky hairs; stamens in pairs of unequal length, filaments 5-6 mm long; anthers 4-5 mm long, basifixed, mucronate, lobes slightly unequal; ovary half inferior, inserted within and fused with the calyx cup, 3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous; style 1.5 cm long, filiform; stigma 3-4 fid. Fruit a drupe, reddish-green, 2-2.5 cm long, conoid, with erect calyx lobes; seed one; hypocotyl 10-15 x 1.2 cm, cylindric, with blunt tip, surface slightly ridged.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
July-December
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District(s):
Kollam, Ernakulam
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Mangrove forests
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Distribution:
Indo-Malesia
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Aquatic:
Yes
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Red, Orange
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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