Comments
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This taxon is the natural hybrid Sonneratia alba × S. caseolaris.
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Description
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Trees 7-10[-25] m tall, spreading, with dense, dark green canopy. Pneumatophores ca. 80 cm, thin, pointed. Petiole 3-5 mm; leaf blade adaxially dull green, obovate, 5-9(-11) × 4-5(-6) cm, base broadly attenuate, apex acute to obtuse. Flowers 5-7-merous. Floral tube smooth, not ribbed; sepals adaxially usually strongly tinged red, 2-2.5 cm, erect at anthesis, erect to partially spreading in fruit. Petals red, linear, 4-5 cm × ca. 2 mm. Staminal filaments red. Fruit 3-5 cm in diam., ca. equal to width of floral tube. Seeds irregularly angular. Fl. Dec and Mar, fr. Mar and Aug.
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Habitat & Distribution
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Mangrove communities, where both Sonneratia alba and S. caseolaris are present, along lower to middle tidal contours. Hainan [Indonesia (NW Kalimantan), Malaysia; E Australia].
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Synonym
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Sonneratia paracaseolaris W. C. Ko et al.
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