Laguncularia racemosa (L.) C.F.Gaertn.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Combretaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A tree, reaching a maximum height of about 20 m. with a trunk up to 8 dm. in diameter, usually much smaller, and often shrubby, the reddish brown, glabrous twigs thickened at the nodes. Leaves oblong, oval or obovate, 2-7 cm. long, emarginate or rounded at the apex, rounded, narrowed or subeordate at the base, the stout petioles 0.5-2 cm. long; spikes 3-6 cm. long, few several- flowered; calyx tomentulose, its lobes rounded; petals 5, orbicular, not longer than the calyx; drupes oblong to obovoid, reddish, 1.5-2 cm. long, constricted below the persistent calyx-lobes.
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Discussion
Borders of mangrove mud and in sea-shallows. Great Bahama, Great Sturrup Cay, Little Harbor Cay, Andros, New Providence. Ship Channel Cay, Great Guana cay. Great Fxtima, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Fortune Island, Grand Turk, and the Anguilla Isles: Florida: West Indies; tropic continental American coasts. WHITE Mangrove. Bastard Buttonwood. Green Turtle Bough.
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Distribution
Great Bahama, Great Sturrup Cay, Little Harbor Cay, Andros, New Providence. Ship Channel Cay, Great Guana cay. Great Exuma, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Fortune Island, Grand Turk, and the Anguilla Isles: Florida: West Indies; tropic continental American coasts.
Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| Andros Island Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Exuma Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Cat Island Bahamas South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Anguilla South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|