- 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 fragrans K.D.Koenig; Aegiceras malaspinaea A.DC.; Aegiceras minus A.DC.; Aegiceras obcordatum Steud.; Aegiceras obovatum Blume; Malaspinaea laurifolia C.Presl; Umbraculum corniculatum (L.) Kuntze; Rhizophora aegiceras J.F.Gmel.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Aegiceras majus Gaertn.
- Common name : River Mangrove, Black Mangrove
- Vernacular name :
- Kanjalaa, Shuli, Soole (Kannada)
- Pookandal (Malayalam)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Littoral and tidal swamp forests
- 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
- Andaman and Nicobar Islands : Andaman and Nicobar Island
- Native : Andaman Is., Bangladesh, Cambodia, China Southeast, Hainan, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Norfolk Is., Pakistan, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
- 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.
- Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla
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- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Aegiceras corniculatum. Downloaded on 28 June 2024.
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Botanical Description
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Herbarium Specimen(s)
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Field Image(s)
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India Distribution
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World Distribution
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