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Family Rhizophoraceae

The family name means 'from the mangroves'.

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Carallia brachiata
meransi
Pale flowers in stalked clusters, fruit pink to red, pulpy. Tree to 25m., commonly called false kelat. Hard heavy wood, horizontal branches, twigs solid prominently swollen at nodes. Leaf midrib sunken above, secondary nerves joined near margins as double loops.

Last updated 25 April 2007.

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