Ceriops tagal(Perr.) C.B.Rob.

WFO wfo-0000597945 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Ceriops tagal, photographed by Mathew Rees
fig. a Mathew Rees, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-30 / obs. 176791545
Ceriops tagal, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. b Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 135735619
Ceriops tagal, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. c Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 177980093
Ceriops tagal, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. d Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 202148043
Ceriops tagal, photographed by Abu Hamas
fig. e Abu Hamas, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 50590292
Ceriops tagal, photographed by Dinesh Valke
fig. f Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 135735631
Ceriops tagal, photographed by Sayee Girdhari
fig. g Sayee Girdhari, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177234459
Ceriops tagal, photographed by Ewout Knoester
fig. h Ewout Knoester, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 119951069

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Native range 42 botanical countries

Regions where Ceriops tagal is native: Aldabra, Comoros, Djibouti, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel Is., Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania, China Southeast, Hainan, Andaman Is., Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, India, Jawa, Laccadive Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Pakistan, Philippines, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia, Caroline Is., New Caledonia, Vanuatu DjiboutiKenyaKwaZulu-NatalMadagascarMozambiqueSomaliaTanzaniaChina SoutheastHainanBangladeshBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoCambodiaIndiaJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNew GuineaPakistanPhilippinesSolomon Is.Sri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamNew South WalesNorthern TerritoryQueenslandWestern AustraliaNew Caledonia AldabraComorosMozambique Channel Is.SeychellesAndaman Is.Laccadive Is.Nicobar Is.Caroline Is.Vanuatu
Native distribution of Ceriops tagal, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Bismarck Archipelago BIS
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
India IND
Jawa JAW
Laccadive Is. LDV
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
New Guinea NWG
Nicobar Is. NCB
Pakistan PAK
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Aldabra ALD AFRICA
Comoros COM
Djibouti DJI
Kenya KEN
KwaZulu-Natal NAT
Madagascar MDG
Mozambique MOZ
Mozambique Channel Is. MCI
Seychelles SEY
Somalia SOM
Tanzania TAN
New South Wales NSW AUSTRALASIA
Northern Territory NTA
Queensland QLD
Western Australia WAU
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC
New Caledonia NWC
Vanuatu VAN
China Southeast CHS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Hainan CHH

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 189 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 16.9 °C 22.7 °C 25.2 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.5 °C 29.1 °C 32.6 °C
Annual rainfall 976 mm 1,811 mm 3,152 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 2 mm 115 mm 498 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 189 research-grade observations of Ceriops tagal that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 18 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bruguiera arnottiana Wight ex Arn.
  • Bruguiera timoriensis Wight & Arn.
  • Ceriops boviniana Tul.
  • Ceriops candolleana Arn.
  • Ceriops candolleana var. sasakii Hayata
  • Ceriops candolleana var. spathulata Blume
  • Ceriops forsteniana Blume
  • Ceriops globulifera Boreau ex Tul.
  • Ceriops lucida Miq.
  • Ceriops lucida var. latifolia Miq.
  • Ceriops lucida var. subspathulata Miq.
  • Ceriops mossambicensis Klotzsch
  • Ceriops pauciflora Benth.
  • Ceriops somalensis Chiov.
  • Ceriops timoriensis (DC.) C.A.Gardner
  • Ceriops timoriensis Domin
  • Rhizophora tagal Perr.
  • Rhizophora timoriensis DC.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.