mangrove flora: bakau minyak (rhizophora apiculata)

CONTENTS

Fauna index

Flowering plants

Peter K L Ng and N Sivasothi (editors)

Bakau minyak Rhizophora apiculata Family Rhizophoraceae Southeast Asia to Micronesia. Locally at most sites.		Rhizophora apiculata tree Prop roots Flower and buds Bark
Underside of leaf blade showing the dark glands Branch tip with red stipule Young to old fruits showing the seedling Young saplings	Tree up to 20 m tall. Leaf blades elliptic, tiny black-spotted below, leaf stalks and stipules often tinged red. Stalkless flowers cream-coloured, in pairs, on a short, stout, dark grey stalk. Fruit brown, upside-down pear-shaped, crowned by the persistent sepals. Seedling viviparous, hypocotyl about 30 cm long, smooth, with somewhat rounded tip. Gregarious on deep soft mud of estuaries flooded by high tides. Source of timber (bakau). Rare.
	Differs from R. mucronata and R. stylosa in possessing short, stout, dark grey inflorescence stalks (vs. long, slender, yellow). See also ultrafiltration of salt, vivipary and prop roots as adaptations to the mangroves.

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From "A Guide to Mangroves of Singapore", Peter K. L. Ng and N. Sivasothi (editors)
Volume 1: The Ecosystem and Plant Diversity and Volume 2: Animal Diversity
Authors: Kelvin K. P. Lim, Dennis H. Murphy, T. Morgany, N. Sivasothi, Peter K. L. Ng,
B. C. Soong, Hugh T. W. Tan, K. S. Tan & T. K. Tan
BP Guide to Nature Series published by the Singapore Science Centre, sponsored by British Petroleum
© 2001 Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, The National University of Singapore & The Singapore Science Centre