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Avicennia marina var. marina
(Forssk.) Vierh.
Shrub or small bushy trees, evergreen, upto 4 m high Bark smooth, yellowish-brown, lenticellate in younger parts. Leaves 3 - 6 cm length and 2 - 2.5 cm broad. Leaves elliptic-tomentose beneath, acute at apex, rounded, or tapering towards base; petioles 3 - 5 mm long, glabrous. Flowers 2 - 4 mm across, sessile, pale-yellow in condensed terminal cyme Calyx deeply lobed, hairy tomentose Corolla lobes ovate-acute; ovary villous, style short, stigma 2 Capsule12 - 15 mm long, ovoid, apiculate, greyish-tomentose, compressed, viviparous.
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