7205.000 Avicennia L.

Shrubs or trees, maritime, branches terete, sometimes 4-ridged when young. Leaves opposite. Inflorescence small spikes or capitula; bracts and bractlets ovate, shorter than calyx; flowers opposite, sessile. Flowers small, calyx cup-shaped, deeply 5-lobed, lobes overlapping, persistent; corolla subactinomorphic, campanulate, lobes 4 or 5 upper lobe often broader than others. Fruit capsule, subtended by persistent calyx, dehiscent into 2 leathery valves.

Worldwide: 8 species, fairly cosmopolitan in warm regions.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.