Lumnitzera
Genus of trees in the Combretaceae family growing from Africa to Asia to northern Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Genus of trees in the Combretaceae family growing from Africa to Asia to northern Australia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lumnitzera is an Indo-West Pacific mangrove genus in the family Combretaceae.[3]: 533 An English common name is black mangrove.[4] (However, "black mangrove" may also refer to the unrelated genus Avicennia.) Lumnitzera, named after the German botanist, Stephan Lumnitzer (1750-1806), occurs in mangroves from East Africa to the Western Pacific (including Fiji and Tonga), and northern Australia.[1]
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| Lumnitzera racemosa (flowering) - Kung Krabaen, Chantaburi province, Thailand | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Combretaceae |
| Genus: | Lumnitzera Willd. (1803)[1] |
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| Range of Lumnitzera[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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The genus has two species of similar vegetative appearance but with differing flower colour. Lumnitzera littorea has red flowers whereas Lumnitzera racemosa has white flowers. Both species have flat and spoon-shaped (spathulate) leaves with emarginate tips. L. racemosa dominates in the western part of the range and L. littorea dominates in the east. Hybrids occur within the zone of overlap (Lumnitzera × rosea).[1][3]: 587
Three genera of the tropical woody family Combretaceae, Laguncularia, Conocarpus, and Lumnitzera, are found in mangroves but Lumnitzera is the only one to occur in the Indo-West Pacific mangroves, including Australia.[1]
Current accepted species are:[2][3]: 585–6
There have been a number of taxa that possessed the Lumnitzera genus that are now unplaced or assigned to other taxa:
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