- Family : RHIZOPHORACEAE
(Mangrove Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : SADABAHAR FAMILY (सदाबहार फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : RHIZOPHORACEAE
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Rhizophora apiculata Blume
- Vernacular name : Rai (Oria); Kandal (Tamil); Kaya-kandel, Vallikandel (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tidal forests
- Key identification features : A mangrove tree
- Flower, Fruit : Throughout the year
- Collection Nos : KFP 10969
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Thrissur district, Ernakulam district, Kottayam district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
- Odisha : Cuttack district, Koraput district, Kendrapara district
- Tamil Nadu : Cuddalore district, Ramanathapuram district
- World Distribution : Tropical SE. Asia, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 2; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
- 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=Rhizophora apiculata. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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