A shrub or small tree, 1.5-7 m tall, usually gregarious, glabrous. Leaves obovate-oblong to obovate, 4-8 cm long, 2.5-4 cm broad, pale green, shining above, glaucous beneath, entire; petiole 3-6 mm long, stout. Flowers c. 1.5 cm across, usually white, fragrant. Calyx 6-7 mm long, deeply 5-lobed, twisted, glabrous, persistent. Corolla deeply 5-lobed, c. twice as long as the calyx, thickish; lobes triangular, acute, reflexed. Stamens 5; filaments somewhat exserted, densely woolly at base; anthers long, transversely septate into many cells. Fruit cylindrical, acute to acuminate, 2.5-5(-6) cm long, 4-6 mm broad, falcate, reddish-brown, surrounded at base by persistent calyx.

Fl. Per.: Feb.-March.

Type: Not designated.

Distribution: Tropical sea shores of Pakistan, India, eastward to Australia.

Aegiceras floridum Roem. & Schult., is doubtfully distinct from this.