• Family : COMBRETACEAE
  (Combretum Or Indian Almond Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ARJUN FAMILY (अर्जुन फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : COMBRETACEAE
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Lumnitzera racemosa Willd.
• Vernacular name : Kadakandal (Malayalam); Kiripa (Oria)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Mangrove swamps
• Key identification features : A mangrove and littoral tree.
• Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
• Collection Nos : Bell 7741, Cramer 4551
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
• World Distribution : Paleotropics
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Lumnitzera racemosa. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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