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Sonneratia caseolaris

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Identification
Sonneratia alba Sm. [family LYTHRACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Fernandes, A., Sonneratia caseolaris L. [family LYTHRACEAE ] Sonneratia alba Sm. [family LYTHRACEAE ] Verified by Van Steenis, C. G. G. J,
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  • Sonneratia evenia
  • Sonneratia lanceolata
  • Sonneratia oborata
  • Sonneratia ovalis
  • Sonneratia alba
  • Sonneratia caseolaris

Flora

Entry for SONNERATIA alba Sm. [family LYTHRACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (1968) Author: G. R. Williams Sangai (East African Herbarium)
Names
SONNERATIA alba Sm. [family LYTHRACEAE], in Rees Cycl. 33, No. 2 (1816); DC., Prodr. 3: 231 (1828); C.B. CI. in Fl. Brit. India 2: 580 (1879); Engl., V.E. 3(2): 655–656 (1921); T.T.C.L.: 592 (1949); Backer & van Steenis, Fl. Males., ser. 1, 4(3): 285, fig. 3/b (1951); E.P.A. 612 (1959); K.T.S.: 539, fig. 98 (1961). Type: Indonesia, Amboina, Rumphius, illustration of Mangium caseolare album in Herb. Amb. 3: 111, t. 73 (1743)
SONNERATIA mossambicensis Klotzsch [family LYTHRACEAE], in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 1: 66, t. 12 (1861). Type: Mozambique, 14–18°S., Peters (B, holo. †, K, iso.)
SONNERATIA acida [family LYTHRACEAE], [sensu Hiern in F.T.A. 2: 483 (1871), non Linn.f.]
SONNERATIA caseolaris [family LYTHRACEAE], [sensu P.O.A. C: 286 (1895); U.O.P.Z.: 449, fig. et auct. al. afr. non (L.) Engl.]
SONNERATIA acida (Klotzsch) Mattei var. mossambicensis [family LYTHRACEAE], in Boll. Ort. Palermo 7: 108 (1908)
Information
An evergreen shrub or usually a small tree, 3–15(–20) m. tall, with many stout finger-like pneumatophores and spreading branches; bark dark grey or greyish-brown, rough and fissured. Leaf-blades yellow-green, obovate, oval, or almost round, 3.8–12.5 cm. long, 1.7–9 cm. wide, rounded or emarginate at the apex, cuneate at the base; lateral nerves 11–14 on either side of the prominent midrib; petiole stout, 3–15 mm. long. Flowers scented, solitary or 3 together at apices of the shoots. Buds oblong, narrowed at base and apex. Calyx green, 2.6–3.5 cm. long; tube campanulate, angular, the angles alternating with the calyx-lobes; lobes 6–8, magenta-pink inside, green outside, shorter or longer than the tube, 1.2–2 cm. long and 4.5–9(–12) mm. wide, at first more or less erect, later reflexed in fruit. Petals white or tinged with magenta-pink, soon deciduous, strap-shaped, inconspicuous and closely resembling the filaments, 13–20 mm. long and 0.5–1.25 mm. wide. Stamens numerous, the filaments showy, white, inflexed in bud. Ovary 14–18-locular; style green, 4.5–5.9 cm. long; stigma capitate, 2.5–3 mm. wide. Fruit obconic-turbinate, 2.3–3 cm. long and 3.1–4 cm. wide, green, crowned by the style base. Ripe seeds not seen. Fig. 1.
Range
DISTR. K7; T3, 6, 8; Z; P Mozambique, Somali Republic (S.), N. Madagascar, Comoro Is., Seychelles, SE. Continental Asia and Andamans to N. Australia, S. Riu Kiu Is., Micronesia, Solomon Is., New Hebrides and New Caledonia
Altitude range
sea-level
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Kikambala, June 1954, Irwin 24 in C.M. 22259 !KENYA Mombasa I., Tudor House Beach, 7 Aug. 1965, G. R. Williams Sangai 844!KENYA Kilifi District Kilifi Creek, July 1939, C. G. van Someren Sh 91!TANGANYIKA Tanga District 11 km. NE. of Pangani, Kigombe Beach, 11 July 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 3234 !TANGANYIKA Rufiji District Rufiji delta near Salale, 25 Feb. 1900, Busse 402! & Mafia I., Kanga, 15 Aug. 1937, Greenway 5113!TANGANYIKA Kilwa District Kilwa Kisiwani, 2 June 1906, Braun 1180 !ZANZIBAR Zanzibar I., Unguja Ukoo, 5 Feb. 1929, Greenway 1355!ZANZIBAR Pemba I. , Chake Chake, 17 July 1929, T. C. Vaughan 404!
Notes
The type of S. mossambicensis Klotzsch can scarcely be anything but S. alba Sm., but the fruit is drawn with erect calyx-lobes and petals are stated to be absent. I have followed Backer and van Steenis in considering it a synonym.

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