Flowers; Centro de Preservação do Peixe Boi Marinho, Ilha de Itamaracá, Pernambuco, Brazil; 4/2012 © Jörn Germer
Inflorescence; Centro de Preservação do Peixe Boi Marinho, Ilha de Itamaracá, Pernambuco, Brazil; 4/2012 © Jörn Germer
Upper and lower surface of leaf; Centro de Preservação do Peixe Boi Marinho, Ilha de Itamaracá, Pernambuco, Brazil; 4/2012 © Jörn Germer
Habit; Centro de Preservação do Peixe Boi Marinho, Ilha de Itamaracá, Pernambuco, Brazil; 4/2012 © Jörn Germer
Identifier: 1939 Date of entry: 17.05.2012 Last update: 11.01.2020
English: White mangrove
German: Weiße Mangrove
Portuguese: Mangue-branco
Kingdom: Plantae (2715)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)
Order: Myrtales (80)
Family: Combretaceae (9)(family description)
Genus: Laguncularia (1)
Epithet: racemosa (L.) C.F.Gaertn. (9)
racemosa => in form of a cluster
Climate: tropical
Habit: shrub, tree
Flower colour: green
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