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Red Flowered Black Mangrove

Lumnitzera littorea

Also called Black Mangrove

Red Flowered Black Mangrove
Photo: Tauʻolunga, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Combretaceae (Combret family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Sri Lanka to S. Hainan and W. Pacific
Climate
wet tropical

About

Lumnitzera littorea is a species of mangrove. It is native to tropical coastal and estuarine areas of the eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean, Including India, Sri Lanka, the Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Hainan, the Philippines, Timor Leste, New Guinea, northern Australia (Northern Territory and Queensland), the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu.

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White Flowered Black Mangrove · Lumnitzera

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lumnitzera littorea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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