| Shrub
to short tree (2-3m). Short buttress and knee roots. Leaves oval,
green stiff. Stipules pale yellow or greenish. Flowers small in clusters,
with 8-lobed calyx. Hypocotyl thin, sepals bend towards stalk. Commonly
seen in our back mangroves. |
Tree
(to 15m). Buttress and knee roots. Leaves oval, shiny green and stiff.
Stipules often reddish. Flowers large, one per leaf angle.12-14 lobed
calyx that is bright red in the sun but may be yellowish in the shade.
Petals tipped with tassels. Hypocotyl fat cigar-shaped with sepals
clasping the hypocotyl (not bent towards the stalk). Sometimes seen
in our mangroves. |
Tree
(to 33m). Short buttress and knee roots.Leaves oval (9-16cm long).
Flowers larger than B. cylindrica (about 2cm) in clusters of
2-3 flowers. Calyx with 10 stout long lobes. Hypocotyl is cigar-shaped
(1-9cm) slightly curved. The calyx lobes are extended at right angles
to the hypocotyl. Rare. It is Critically Endangered. |
Shrub
to small tree (5-15m). Leaves oval (7-13cm). Flower with long slender
calyx and 8 short lobes. Hypocotyl thin, smooth, long (8-13cm long)
slightly curved, the calyx lobes clasping the propagule (not bent
towards the stalk). Rare. It is Endangered. |
Tree
(up to 12m). May have prop, stilt and knee roots. Leaves leathery.
Stipules yellowish. Flowers large, occurs singly, 10-12 lobed calyx
usually yellow, yellowish-brown, never conspicously scarlet although
may be reddish. Flowers occur singly. Petals with blunt tip with 1-2
short bristles or hairless. Hypocotyl fat, angular, ridged (6-8cm
long). Rare. It is Critically Endangered. |
