Heritiera is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. They are dominant rainforest trees in several areas in eastern Africa and India to the Pacific. Some are mangroves. Several are valuable for their timber and are overexploited.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0