Rhizophoraceae Rhizophora

| |	© W.D. Hawthorne

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Keywords in this picture :

• Mangrove
• Bole
• Habit
• Habitat
• Vegetative
• Tree (any size)
• Ecology
• Swamp forest
• Plant parts
• Aerial roots
• Vegetation
• Species level terms

Places where this species can be found :

• Levera National Park - GRENADA

Specimen information

Collection Date
29/11/1999

Collector
W.D. Hawthorne, C. Hughes

Specimen Number
273

Location
Mangroves immediately inland from Levera Beach towards Levera Pond about 2km N of the National Park Visitor Centre.

Notes
Small branchy tree to 8m ht. with large arching, branched stilt roots from 4m ht, surrounded by dense thickets of 20cm tall rubbery and flexible air roots. Twigs fatter immediately below leaves than further down. Leaves leathery, upper surface - glossy, midrib shallowly grooved, paler, lower surface - midrib yellow, parallel laterals visible, dotted. Forming dense thickets in standing brackish water and surrounding waterlogged silt. The only mangrove in flooded area. (RHS colour code: Leaf upper =139A, below=146A)

Coordinates
Latitude: 12.130000 N   Longitude: 61.360000 W   Altitude: 1