Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Aegiceras corniculatum
Common name
River mangrove
Family
Primulaceae
Where found
Tidal stream banks and tidal water. Coastal.
Notes
Shrub mostly to about 4 m high. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–10 cm long, 15–50 mm wide, leathery, margins entire. Flowers fragrant, white, 4–6 mm long, tubular, with 5 lobes, in 10–30-flowered clusters. Seed case dry.
Often occurs with Avicennia marina but extends farther upstream and more inland than that species.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Aegiceras~corniculatum (accessed 2 January, 2021)
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