1978•Nuytsia—The journal of the Western Australian HerbariumRequires access
A new character for distinguishing vegetative material of the mangrove genera Bruguiera and Rhizophora (Rhizophoraceae)
Kevin Francis Kenneally, Paul Graham Wilson, V. Semeniuk
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Abstract
A character based on vascular traces in leaf abscission scars enables identification of vegetative material of the mangroves Bruguieru and Rhizophora.In Bruguiera the leaf traces are aggregated into three distinct bundles whereas in Rhizophora they are arranged in a crescentic pattern.