WorldFloraDB - Sonneratia x gulngai

Characteristics

Tree c. 25 m high. Leaves: lamina obovate, 5–8 cm long, acuminate with reflexed mucro, coriaceous; petiole 6–14 mm long. Inflorescence 1-or 2-flowered. Flowers 5–7-merous. Sepals elliptic-triangular, 15–23 mm long, erect in flower, erect to half-spreading in fruit, green and smooth outside, usually reddish inside. Hypanthium cup-shaped, smooth, unribbed. Petals linear, 2–4.1 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, red. Stamens c. 3.5–4 cm long; filaments red. Ovary half-inferior with 13–17 carpets; style c. 3 cm long. Fruit c. 1–2 cm long, 3–5 cm diam., c. equal to hypanthium-width; hypanthium cup-shaped, c. 2 cm high. Seeds angular.

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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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tree

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Foliage retention

evergreen

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

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Mature height (meter)

25.0

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Jan	Feb	Mar
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Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

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Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

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Environment

Grows in estuaries where both Sonneratia alba and S. caseolaris are present, along lower to middle tidal contours.

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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:905300-1
WFO ID	wfo-0001280525
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Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Sonneratia x gulngai Sonneratia paracaseolaris

WorldFloraDB 2024

Sonneratia x gulngai N.C.Duke

Species