Sonneratia lanceolata Blume

Tree to 20 m high. Leaves: lamina narrowly ovate, elliptic or lanceolate, 6–13 cm long, acute, mucronate; petiole 2–7 mm long. Inflorescence 1-or 2-flowered. Flowers 5–7-merous. Sepals elliptic-triangular to ovate-triangular, 1–1.5 cm long, ±erect to spreading, green and smooth outside, usually green inside. Hypanthium shallowly cup-shaped, not ribbed. Petals linear, 1–3 cm long, 2–4 mm wide, red. Stamens c. 4.5 cm long; filaments white. Ovary superior with 12–17 carpels; style 3–6 cm long. Fruit 2.5–4 cm diam., wider than hypanthium; hypanthium saucer-shaped. Seeds angular.

This species is both salt and fresh water tolerant, occurring in low tide regions and upstream in river estuaries in soft silty soil.