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Trees, columnar, to 10(-20) m tall. Pneumatophores ca. 20 cm, thin, pointed. Petiole 5-6 mm; leaf blade broadly ovate to suborbicular, 4-10 × 3-9 cm, base broadly rounded or subcordate, apex rounded, mucro absent. Flowers mostly 6-merous. Floral tube 2-3 cm at anthesis, finely verruculose, 6-ribbed, ribs decurrent along stipitate base; sepals adaxially strongly tinged red, ca. 1.5 cm, often appressed against mature fruit. Petals generally absent, rarely vestigial, white, linear. Staminal filaments white. Fruit 3-4.5 cm in diam., ca. equal to width of floral tube. Fl. Mar-Oct, fr. Apr-Oct. 2n = 22, 24.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Ria Tan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), https://www.flickr.com/photos/wildsingapore/3451715527/
2. (c) Ria Tan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), https://www.flickr.com/photos/wildsingapore/15676712176/
3. (c) Ria Tan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), https://www.flickr.com/photos/wildsingapore/9961351164/
4. (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4961248

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