• Family : MYRSINACEAE
  (Myrsine Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : VIDANGA FAMILY (विडंग फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : PRIMULACEAE
• Basionym : Rhizophora corniculata L.
• Synonym(s) : Aegiceras majus Gaertn.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Aegiceras corniculatum (L.) Blanco
• Common name : River Mangrove, Black Mangrove
• Vernacular name : Kanjalaa, Shuli, Soole (Kannada); Pookandal (Malayalam)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Mangrove forests and marshy areas
• Comments / notes : Common along coastal estuaries
• Key identification features : A Mangrove Tree
• Flower, Fruit : February-September
• Collector(s) Name : K.P.Sreenath, Raja Keshava Murthy & B.R.Ramesh; C.J.Saldanha & N.S.Ravindra
• Collection Nos : KFP 5127, KFP 1330, KFP 6956
• Collection Locality : Kundapur-Maravanthe road (Dakshina Kannada); Kulur-Mangalore road (Dakshina Kannada)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Kozhikode district, Malappuram district, Thrissur district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
  • Odisha : Kendrapara district, Balasore district, Puri district, Khurda district, Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Cuddalore district mangrove
• World Distribution : Tropical shores from Pakistan to Australia
• Conservation Status : Least Concern (LC)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara; 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=Aegiceras corniculatum. Downloaded on 20 May 2024.

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