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Probably monoecious trees of mangrove swamps and coastal regions, often with pneumatophores and buttresses. Leaves paripinnate; leaflets entire. Inflorescence a compound cyme. Calyx 4-lobed to below the middle. Petals 4, free. Staminal tube bearing 8 included anthers and terminated by 8 appendages. Ovary 4-locular, with 2-4 ovules per loculus. Fruit a ± spherical, large, leathery capsule dehiscing by 4 valves and with a vestigial columella. Seeds 8-16, pyramidal or tetrahedral, without wings but with a thick corky outer layer.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Xylocarpus Flora of Mozambique website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=2335
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- Petra Ballings
Xylocarpus: Brief Summary
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Xylocarpus is a genus of plants in the mahogany family (Meliaceae). It includes two or three species of mangroves, native to coastal mangrove forests of the Western and Central Indo-Pacific, from eastern Africa to Tonga.
Xylocarpus is the only mangrove genus in family Meliaceae.
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