Lumnitzera Willd.

Small trees or shrubs, evergreen leaves spiralled, densely crowded at apices of branchlets; lamina spathulate to narrowly oblanceolate, gradually narrowed into a short petiole, somewhat fleshy, glossy and glaborous when mature. Inflorescence spikes or racemes, several-flowered axillary or terminal. Calyx tube cylindric, not differentiated into proximal and distal parts; lobes 5; petals 5, red or white, rarely pink or yellow. Fruit fusiform or ellipsoid, obtusely angled, dry; apex bearing persistent calyx lobes and style.

Worldwide: 2 species in Asia, East Africa, Madagascar, north Australia and Pacific Islands.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.