Plant Details

Accepted name:: Rhizophora mangle L. [Rhizophoraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
american mangrove	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
amerikansk mangrove	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
gurúra	Other	Med. Pl. E Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996)
hóng shù kē	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
hóng shù shǔ	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
mangle	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021)
mangle colorado	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mangle rojo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
mangrove	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mangue-vermelho	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mankru	Other	Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016)
red mangrove	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
xiá guǒ hóng shù	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
狭果红树	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
红树属	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
红树科	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
bark		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
bark		Med. Pl. E Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 2 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Bruguiera decangulata Griff. Not. Pl. Asiat. 4: 669 (1854).
Rhizophora americana Nutt. N. Amer. Sylv. 1: 112 (1842).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Rhizophora mangle	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Rhizophora mangle L.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. E Nicaragua (Coe et al., 1996) Med. Pl. Latin America (Duke, 2009) Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Med. Pl. of Brazil (Mors et al., 2000) Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2021) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) SOTWP 2016: Pl. for Malaria, Pl. for Fever (Milliken, 2015) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Rhizophora mangle Lin.	Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
Rhizophora mangle Linn.	SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. of W Tropical Africa (2015)
Rhizophora mangle Roxb.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)

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