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[[File:Xylocarpus granatum_L1.jpg|thumb|flowering branch. obtained from (A field guide to Kenyan mangroves)]][[File:Xylocarpus granatum P29-3.jpg|thumb|fruiting tree. obtained from (Mangroves of India)]][[File:Xylocarpus granatum_L2.jpg|thumb|leaf. obtained from (A field guide to Kenyan mangroves)]][[File:Xylocarpus granatum_FL1.jpg|thumb|flowers. obtained from (A field guide to Kenyan mangroves)]][[File:Xylocarpus granatum P29-2.jpg|thumb|flowers. obtained from (Mangroves of India)]]

*Small to medium-sized tree up to 15(–20) m tall; bole often of poor form, up to 90 cm in diameter, with thin, branched ribbon-like surface roots; bark thin, smooth, scaly with irregular flakes, whitish to yellow-brown, inner bark reddish pink. *Leaves alternate, paripinnately compound, with 1–2(–3) pairs of leaflets; stipules absent; petiole and rachis up to 12 cm long; petiolules 2–11 mm long, thickened; leaflets elliptical or obovate, 4–12 cm × 2–6 cm, base cuneate, apex rounded, entire, leathery. *Inflorescence an axillary thyrse up to 6 cm long, often forked with indistinct main axis. *Flowers functionally unisexual, regular, 4-merous; pedicel 3–9 mm long, thickened near the calyx; calyx lobed to about the middle, lobes 1–3 mm long; petals free, oblong, 3.5–6.5 mm × 2–3 mm, creamy-white or pinkish; stamens 8, united into a tube 2–3.5 mm in diameter; disk well developed, 8-lobed, red; ovary superior, 4-celled, style short and thick, stigma large. *Fruit a globose, pendulous, woody capsule 12–25 cm in diameter, weighing up to 3 kg, tardily dehiscing by 4 valves from apex, 6–20-seeded. *Seeds irregularly tetrahedral, up to 6 cm long, brown, with a corky seedcoat. *Seedling with hypogeal germination, initially with scale leaves, first leaves simple.

Jansen, P.C.M., 2005. '''Xylocarpus granatum''' J.König. [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>. Accessed {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}.