CombretaceaeW/C = Wild Collected |
Laguncularia racemosa (L.) Gaertn. f.
- Query IPNI
- Common Name: White Mangrove
- Family: Combretaceae R. Br.
- Country of Origin: Both coasts of tropical America
- Habitat: Tropical Dry to Rain through Subtropical Dry to Rain Forest Life Zones
- Description: Evergreen tree to 12 m tall and 30 cm diameter, with rounded or irregular spreading crown. Bark gray-brown, becoming rough and fissured; inner bark light brown. Pneumatophores often present. Leaves Opposite, elliptical, 4–10 cm long, 2.5–5 cm wide, rounded at both ends, entire, glabrous, leathery, slightly fleshy, without visible veins. Petiole 10–13 mm long, stout, reddish, with 2 raised gland-dots near blade. Panicles at ends and sides of twigs, mostly branched and spreading, 3–10 cm long. Flowers mostly bisexual ca 5 mm long, bell-shaped, whitish. Petals, 5, rounded, whitish, 1 mm long, and stamens, 10. Pistil with inferior 1-celled ovary with 2 ovules, slender style, and tiny 2-lobed stigma. Drupes several, stalkless, obovoid, 12–20 mm long, flattened, ridged, gray-green with velvety hairs when immature, turning brownish, Seed 1, large, sometimes viviparous
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 Accession Data:- Accession # 200400003
- Source: Debbie Black - UIUC
- Accession Date: 01-23-2004
- Bench: 2306 - Aquatics - Collections & Research
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 08-21-2008
Classification:- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: rosids
- Order: Myrtales
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- Family: Combretaceae
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References:New Crops at Purdue - referencing: Little, E.L. Jr. 1983. Common fuelwood crops: a handbook for their identification. McClain Printing Co., Parsons, WV - site last visited 23JAN04.
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