Description

Aegiceras corniculatum, commonly known as black mangrove, river mangrove or khalsi, is a species of shrub or tree mangrove in the primrose family, Primulaceae, with a distribution in coastal and estuarine areas ranging from India through South East Asia to southern China, New Guinea and Australia. A. corniculatum extract has analgesic properties which supports a fight against diabetes.

Scientific classitication

Family: Primulaceae

Genus: Aegiceras

Common Name

black mangrove

Reference

Ma, D., Guo, Z., Ding, Q., Zhao, Z., Shen, Z., Wei, M., Gao, C., Zhang, L., Li, H., Zhang, S., Li, J., Zhu, X. and Zheng, H.‐L. (2021), Chromosome‐level assembly of the mangrove plant Aegiceras corniculatum genome generated through Illumina, PacBio and Hi‐C sequencing technologies. Mol Ecol Resour.