Small-leafed Orange Mangrove
(Bruguiera parviflora)

When viewing a mangrove forest from some distance, the Small-leafed Orange Mangrove stands out due to its yellow-green leaf colour. These trees can grow to 25 m tall.

Roots: Buttresses at the base of the trunk and knee roots.

Leaves: Small (5 to 10 cm long), yellow-green leaves occurring in clumps at the end of branches.

Flowers and Fruit: Flowers are small and yellow-green. The propagules are long and slender (like the tree itself), and fall from the tree with the green outer parts of the flower remaining attached like a cap.

Bark: Dark and rough bark.

Similar species: Bruguiera cylindrica, like Bruguiera parviflora has very small flowers compared to the large flowered Bruguiera gymnorrhiza, Bruguiera exaristata and Bruguiera sexangula.

Location: This tree generally occurs with the Tall-stilted Mangrove (Rhizophora apiculata) and the Large-leafed Orange Mangrove (Bruguiera gymnorrhiza) in rivers of the wet tropics.