中文名（Chinese Name）：无瓣海桑
学名（Scientific Name）：Sonneratia apetala Buch.-Ham.
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科属（Family & Genus）：海桑科（Sonneratiaceae）海桑属
形态特征（Description）：
分布（Distribution）：原产于孟加拉国、印度、缅甸、斯里兰卡等国，现广东、海南有栽培。
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引自中国植物志英文版：FOC Vol. 13 Page 287   
Sonneratia apetala Buchanan-Hamilton in Symes, Embassy Ava. 477. 1800.
无瓣海桑 wu ban hai sang| Lythraceae  | Sonneratia
Columnar trees to 15(-20) m tall. Pneumatophores to 1.5 m; ultimate branchlets pendulous. Petiole 5-10 mm; leaf blade narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, gradually tapering toward apex, 5-13 × 1.5-4 cm, base attenuate, apex obtuse. Flowers 4(-6)-merous in a 3-7-flowered cyme. Floral tube 1.5-2.5 cm at anthesis, smooth; sepals green, slightly curving around base of fruit. Petals absent. Staminal filaments white. Stigma peltate, to 7 mm wide. Fruit 1-2 × 2-2.5 cm in diam. Seeds typically U-shaped or falcate, 8-9.5 mm. Fl. May-Dec, fr. Aug-Apr.
Introduced as a fast-growing tree for reforestation of mangrove communities. Guangdong (Shenzhen), Hainan [native to Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka].
This species was introduced to China in the 1980s from Sundarbans, Bangladesh, initially to Hainan and subsequently to Shenzhen.
 




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