Heritiera  Aiton


Trees without buttressus, with pneumatophores
Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, upto 14 cm long
Fruit smaller, globose or sub-globose smooth, dorsally flat with a prominent transverse circular ridge.
 
 
Heritiera fomes Buch. Ham

Fruit globose, rough, not dorsally flat, without a transverse circular ridge
 
 

Heritiera kanikensis Banerjee & Majum

Trees with buttressus, without pneumatophores
Leaves broadly ovate-oblong, upto 24 cm long
Fruit large, smooth, ellipsoid with a dorsal rudder-like crest or wing
 

Heritiera littoralis Dryand ex. Ait.