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Flora
Entry for RHIZOPHORA Mangle Linn. [family RHIZOPHORACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 406, (1871) Author: (By Mr. J. G. Baker.)
Names
RHIZOPHORA MangleLinn. [family RHIZOPHORACEAE], DC. Prod. iii. 32.
Information
Leaves elliptical, obtuse, curvature in circumscription nearly equal from about the middle of the blade to each extremity, somewhat narrowed into the petiole at the base, 3–4 in. long, 1 1/2–2 in. broad more or less; petiole 1/2– 3/4 in. Peduncles axillary, 1/2–1 1/2 in., ascending or decurved, often compressed, few-flowered; pedicels about 3, 1/6– 3/4 in. long. Flowers and fruit nearly as in R. mucronata .
Range
Widely spread in Tropical America.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Afzelius!Senegambia Upper Guinea Brunner!
Notes
Our specimens are unsatisfactory, and I do not feel great confidence in this identification.
