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Common name

English: Button mangrove

German: Knopfmangrove

Portuguese: Mangue botão

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2659)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2572)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2167)

      Order: Myrtales (76)

        Family: Combretaceae (9)(family description)

          Genus: Conocarpus (1)

            Epithet: erectus L. (1)

Synonyms: Conocarpus acutifolius Willd. ex Schult., Conocarpus procumbens L., Conocarpus sericeus J.R.Forst. ex G.Don, Conocarpus sericeus (Griseb.) Jiménez, Conocarpus supina Crantz

acutifolius => with pointed leaves

erectus => upright, perpendicular

procumbens => prostrate or lying down

sericeus => silky, covered with silky pubescence

supina => lying down

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: helophytic

Habit: shrub

Flower colour: green, yellow

External links

Check for Conocarpus erectus at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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