- Family : SONNERATIACEAE
(Apple Mangrove Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : APPLE MANGROVE FAMILY
- Family (as per The APG System III) : LYTHRACEAE
- Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Sonneratia alba Sm.
- Vernacular name : Nakshathrakandel (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Mangrove forests
- Comments / notes : The fruit is edible
- Key identification features : A mangrove and littoral tree
- Flower, Fruit : February-July
- Collection Nos : KFP 6959, KFP 10971, KFP 11376
- Distribution :
- Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Uttara Kannada district, Udupi district
- Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Ernakulam district
- Odisha : Kendrapara district, Cuttack district, Koraput district
- World Distribution : India, Andamans (India), Madagascar, SE. Continental Asia to N. Australia, Ryu Kyu Islands, Micronesia, Solaman Islands, The new Hebrides, New Calidonia
- Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
- Literature : Saldanha, C. J. 1996. Flora of Karnataka vol. 2; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; 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=Sonneratia alba. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.
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