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Sonneratia griffithii
Kurz.
Medium tree, upto 15 m high, deliquiscent spreading branches and occasionally drooping branches, evergreen , woody, erect perennial Bark deep brownish or pale brown, young trees hairy smooth barked but after maturity it becomes fissured. Pneumatophores with tapering ends arising from the horizontal roots in rows Leaves simple, exstipulate, opposite decussate, cauline, short petiolate Petiole 0.1 cm - 0.3 cm long, pulvinous, glabrous, green, insignificant, terete Lamina obovate, entire, round apex, cuneate base, fleshy 5 cm - 10 cm x 3 cm - 6 cm glabrous, shining, dorsiventral in ventral side, greenish midrib, veins conspicuous in dorsal side, unicostate, reticulate venation Inflorescence solitary cyme, branched , having terminal solitary flowers Flowers ebracteate, pedicellate, pedicel short, terete, greenish, glabrous, solid, shining Flower bisexual, incomplete, actinomorphic, whitish green Sepals 6 - 8 gamosepalous, attached with globose ovary Stamens numerous, free, filament long, white, glabrous, round, soft, basifixed, exerted, showy Carpels 6, syncarpous, ovary glabrous, multilocular, having numerous ovules in each locule, axile placentation Style 1, terminal, soft, terete, greenish, glabous, persistent in fruit, stigma 1 round in globule Fruit globose berry, terminally into short stylar beak, partly enclosed by persistent green calyx at base; seeds numerous, angular, light brown in colour. Germination epigeal, modified epigeal but not viviparous.
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