Rhizophora harrisonii

Rhizophora harrisonii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Malpighiales
Family:	Rhizophoraceae
Genus:	Rhizophora
Species:	R. harrisonii
Binomial name
Rhizophora harrisonii Alleyne Leechman, 1918

Rhizophora harrisonni is a species of plant in the family Rhizophoraceae. It can be found in Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guyana, French Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Suriname, Trinidad, Tobago, and Venezuela.^[1]

Description[]

It is a tree that reaches a size of up to 20 m high. It has elliptical leaves, 11–15 cm long and 4–7 cm wide, the acute apex, the cuneate base, glabrous, undersides with black dots. The inflorescence of 5–12 cm long, 3-5 times branched, with many flowers, peduncle 2–7 cm long, with bracts thick, bifid; pedicels 3–11 mm long, flowers 1 cm long; stamens 8; oval or slightly elliptical floral bud, acute apex. Oval-lanceolate fruit, 4 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, radicle 11–25 cm long.^{[citation needed]}

Habitat[]

Being a component of the mangrove communities, gentleman mangroves are usually associated with other mangrove species such as , Stand., Avicennia germinans (L.) L., Stapt & Leechm., Laguncularia racemosa (L.) Gaertn. f., Pelliciera rhizophorae Tr. & Pl. And Rhizophora mangle L.^[2]

Taxonomy[]

Rhizophora harrisonii was described by and published in Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew 1918 (1): 8, f. A, in the year 1918.^[3]

Etymology[]

Rhizophora : generic name that derives from the Greek words: ριζα (rhiza), which means "root" and φορος (phoros), which means "support", referring to the piles of the base.^[4]

harrisonii : epithet awarded in honor of the director of the Director of Science and Agriculture in British Guiana, Sir John Bunchmore Harrison.

Synonyms[]

Rhizophora brevistyla Salvoza ^[5]

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