Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 443 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 202 [secondary reference]

Steudel, E.G. von (1841), Nomenclator Botanicus Edn. 2, 2(11): 449 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 493 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 50 [secondary reference]

Britton, N.L. in Britton, N.L. & Shafer, J.A. (1908), North American Trees: 716 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Rhizophora mangle L.

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 175 [secondary reference]

common name: Mangrove [n/a]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 656, 657 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 186 [secondary reference]

McCusker, A. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1984), Rhizophoraceae. Flora of Australia 22: 1-2 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, CoI, NT, Qld, NSW

• Etymology: "from the Greek rhiza (a root), and phoros (bearing), in reference to the stilt roots."

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Rhizophoraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 221 [secondary reference]

Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Rhizophoraceae. Flora of New South Wales 2: 219-220 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Rhizophoraceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 564 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Rhizophoraceae. Flora of Australia 50: 254 [secondary reference]

Wightman, G. in Dunlop, C.R., Leach, G.J. & Cowie, I.D. (1995), Rhizophoraceae. Flora of the Darwin Region 2: 188 [secondary reference]

Hastings, S.M. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Rhizophoraceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 256 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 429 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 736 [secondary reference]

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