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[[File:Map Barringtonia racemosa.gif|thumb|''Barringtonia racemosa'', distribution in Africa (wild)]]

*Barringtonia, brack-water mangrove, freshwater mangrove, fish-poison tree, powder-puff tree (En). *Barringtonia, bonnet d’évêque, manondro (Fr). *Massinhana (Po). *Mtomondo (Sw).

*Small to medium-sized tree up to 20(–27) m tall; bole up to 50 cm in diameter, sometimes with buttresses; bark smooth or fissured, grey or yellow; knee roots (pneumatophores) sometimes present. *Leaves alternate, crowded towards the ends of twigs, simple; stipules very small, caducous; petiole up to 1.5 cm long, slightly winged; blade elliptical to obovate-oblong or oblanceolate, 5–42 cm × 2–16 cm, base cuneate, apex acuminate, margin entire to toothed. *Inflorescence an axillary, pendulous raceme up to 70(–100) cm long. *Flowers bisexual, almost regular; pedicel up to 1.5(–2.5) cm long; calyx tubular, splitting into (2–)3–4(–5) lobes up to 1.5 cm long, green, flushed pink or purple; petals 4, elliptical, 1–3 cm × 0.5–1.5 cm, adnate to staminal tube, white, often tinged pink outside; stamens numerous, connate into a short tube at base, in several whorls, 2–5 cm long, white to pink, inner whorl without anthers; ovary inferior, globular, (2–)3–4(–6)-celled, style simple, slender, 2–6 cm long, stigma small, head-shaped. *Fruit an ovoid-tetragonous drupe 3–9 cm × 2–5.5 cm, tapering at base, truncate at apex, indehiscent, green, often tinged purple or red, usually 1-seeded. Seed ovoid-tetragonous, 2–4 cm × 1–2.5 cm. *Seedling with hypogeal germination; hypocotyl remaining within fruit wall and seed coat, massive; cotyledons absent or rudimentary; shoot with several scales at base.

Kaume, R.N., 2005. '''Barringtonia racemosa''' (L.) Spreng. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. In: Jansen, P.C.M. & Cardon, D. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>.