Ceriops
Encyclopedia
Ceriops is a genus
of mangrove
s in family
Rhizophoraceae
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There are 5 species:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of mangrove
Mangrove
Mangroves are various kinds of trees up to medium height and shrubs that grow in saline coastal sediment habitats in the tropics and subtropics – mainly between latitudes N and S...
s in family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Rhizophoraceae
Rhizophoraceae
Rhizophoraceae is a family constituted by tropical or subtropical flowering plants. Among the better known members are mangrove trees of the genus Rhizophora...
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There are 5 species:
- Ceriops australis
- Ceriops decandra (Griff.) Ding Hou (sin.: Ceriops roxburghiana Arn.)
- Ceriops pseudodecandra Sheue, Liu, Tsai, and Yang
- Ceriops tagal (Perr.) C.B. Rob.
- Ceriops zippeliana