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Bruguiera parviflora
(Roxb.) Wight & Arnold ex. Griffith
Medium tree upto 16 m - 24 m high; perennial,
evergreen, deliquiscent, woody, erect, branching slightly pyramidal shape,
branches not spreading much, smooth grey bark
Shallow buttressed from the trunk base,
root-knees occasionally blunt end, pneumatophores present.
Leaves simple, opposite decussate, cauline,
exstipulate, petiolate, glabrous, terete, yellowish, solid, pulvinous,7.5
- 10.0 cm long and 2.0 - 4.0 cm broad, elitic, bluntly shinning above,
dull beneath.
Inflorescence cyme, 4-7 flowers on each
peduncle 2.0 - 4.0 cm long, glabrous, terete, yellowish
Flowers ebracteate, pedicellate, pedicel
upto 0.8 cm long, terete, glabrous, smooth, soild, bisexual, regular, complete,
pendulous.
Sepals 8, polysepalous
Corolla 8 polypetalous, petals folded
into two parts, at the terminal part 3 long cilia, petal margin slightly
hairy, thin, herbaceous, glabrous, each petal containing two stamens
of uneual filament length. Petals 1.5 mm long, flowers yellow-green.
Fruit berry, pendulous, upto 2 cm long
0.4 - 0.6 cm diam., hypocotyle 15 cm long , sepal lobes short, persistent
with long calyx tube, end slightly pointed.
Germination epigeal, viviparous, hypocotyle
15 cm long
Economic Importances : Produce hard
timber and fuel wood. Tannin percentage in the stem bark is upto 25.4%
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