Combretaceae

The Combretaceae, often called the white mangrove family, are a family of flowering plants in the order Myrtales. The family includes about 530 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas in ca 10 genera.<ref name="Christenhusz-Byng2016">Template:Cite journal</ref> The family includes the leadwood tree, Combretum imberbe. Three genera, Conocarpus, Laguncularia, and Lumnitzera, grow in mangrove habitats (mangals).<ref name="q">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Combretaceae are widespread in the subtropics and tropics. Some members of this family produce useful construction timber, such as idigbo from Terminalia ivorensis. The commonly cultivated Quisqualis indica (as well as the entire former genus Quisqualis) is now placed in the genus Combretum. Many plants in the former Quisqualis genus contain the excitotoxin quisqualic acid, a potent AMPA agonist.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

White mangroves

The family name comes from the type genus Combretum; it also includes the white mangrove, Laguncularia racemosa, found along seacoasts in tropical America and West Africa.

Genera

Plants of the World Online currently includes:<ref name = POWO>Plants of the World Online: Combretaceae R.Br. (retrieved 19 January 2022)</ref> Template:Div col

1. Combretum Loefl.
2. Conocarpus L.
3. Dansiea Byrnes
4. Getonia Roxb. (synonym Calycopteris)
5. Guiera Adans. ex Juss.
6. Laguncularia C.F.Gaertn. (monotypic)
7. Lumnitzera Willd.
8. Macropteranthes F.Muell.
9. Strephonema Hook.f.
10. Terminalia L. (synonyms: Anogeissus, Buchenavia, Bucida, Pteleopsis, Terminaliopsis)

synonyms of Combretum

• Meiostemon Exell & Stace
• Quisqualis L.
• Thiloa Eichler<ref name="GRINGenera">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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