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to tree (to 20m), but in Singapore much shorter. Sometimes with buttress
or knee roots. Leaves spatula-shaped with oval ends (7-10cm). Flowers
clustered, tiny white petals that turn orange-brown. Fruit brown and
smooth without any texture. Propagule sharply angular (15-25cm long)
with a white collar when ready to drop off. Sometimes seen in our
mangroves. It is Vulnerable. |
Shrub
to short tree (2-3m). Short buttress and knee roots. Leaves oval,
shiny green stiff. Stipules pale yellow or greenish. Flowers small
in clusters, with 8-lobed calyx. Hypocotyl thin, sepals bend towards
stalk. Commonly seen in our back mangroves. |
Tree
(to 15m). Buttress and knee roots. Leaves oval, shiny green and stiff.
Stipules often reddish. Flowers large, one per leaf angle.12-14 lobed
calyx that is bright red in the sun but may be yellowish in the shade.
Hypocotyl fat cigar-shaped with sepals clasping the hypocotyl (not
bent towards the stalk). Sometimes seen in our mangroves. |
Tree
(to 33m). Short buttress and knee roots.Leaves oval (9-16cm long).
Flowers larger than B. cylindrica (about 2cm) in clusters of 2-3 flowers.
Calyx with 10 stout long lobes. Hypocotyl is cigar-shaped (1-9cm)
slightly curved. The calyx lobes are extended at right angles to the
hypocotyl. Rare. It is Critically Endangered. |
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