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Tropical Plant Database - Plant Details
Heritiera littoralis
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Conservation Status
- IUCN: least concern
- USFWS: None
Family: MALVACEAE
Genus: Heritiera
Species: littoralis
Species Author: Dryand.
Vernacular: Looking-Glass Tree, Dungun
Genus: Heritiera
Species: littoralis
Species Author: Dryand.
Vernacular: Looking-Glass Tree, Dungun
Heritiera littoralis, the looking-glass mangrove is a large tree with wing shaped nuts, which is most easily recognised by the silvery scales on the underside of its leaves, which therefore appear green from top and white from below. Cite: Wikipedia
Eastern Africa, Malay, Pacific
- 020397 - collected by W. M. Bush in 1975
- 020395 - collected by W. M. Bush in 1976
- 020396 - collected by Tim Flynn in 1986
- 011446 - collected by Tim Flynn in 1991
- 028330 - collected by Tim Flynn in 1999
- 042203 - collected by E. Albert in 2001
- 042332 - collected by Liloa Dunn in 2004
- 041574 - collected by Tim Flynn in 2004
- 043499 - collected by Francisca Sohl in 2004
- S046550 - collected by Tim Flynn in 2005
- 053422 - collected by David H. Lorence in 2007
- 082956 - collected by David E. Brussell in 2008
- 073011 - collected by J. Beachy in 2012
- 070751 - collected by Merlin Edmonds in 2015
- 092141 - collected by Gregory M. Plunkett in 2016
We currently have 15 herbarium specimens for Heritiera littoralis in our collection. Click on any specimen below to view the herbarium sheet data.
