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Lumnitzera
Sign in to saveLumnitzera is an Indo-West Pacific mangrove genus in the family Combretaceae. An English common name is black mangrove. (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.
Species
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GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMyrtales
- FamilyCombretaceae
General: Lumnitzera can be distinguished from other Combretaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 46
- With media
- 30
- Family
- Combretaceae
- Collections
- BPBM, MEL, BRIT, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Malaysia/Sabah, New Caledonia, Australia, Kiribati, Thailand, Indonesia, Comores
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- Image
- Lumnitzera littorea.jpg
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Lumnitzera is an Indo-West Pacific mangrove genus in the family Combretaceae. An English common name is black mangrove. (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.
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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lumnitzera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.