{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Speciesbox | image = Pelliciera rhizophorae.jpg | image_caption = | status = VU | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{cite iucn |author1=Rueda, C. |author2=Contreras, M. |author3=Madrinan, S. |name-list-style=amp |year=2024 |title=''Pelliciera rhizophorae'' |article-number=e.T233987400A152068879 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-1.RLTS.T233987400A152068879.en |access-date=25 February 2026}}</ref> | genus = Pelliciera | parent_authority = Planch. & Triana | species = rhizophorae | authority = Planch. & Triana }}
'''''Pelliciera rhizophorae''''', known as the '''tea mangrove''', is a less-common species of mangroves found along the Pacific coast from the Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica to the Esmeraldas River in Ecuador, as well as within stands located in Nicaragua, Panama, and Colombia.<ref name="mangrove">{{cite web|url=http://www.mangrove.at/pelliciera-rhizophorae_tea-mangrove.html|title=Pelliciera rhizophorae - Tea Mangrove|publisher=mangrove.at|accessdate=2015-04-10}}</ref> During eras such as the Cenozoic, the species was prevalent. The mangrove hummingbirds of Costa Rica live off the relatively large quantity of nectar produced by its prolific blooms.<ref name="cornell">{{cite web|url=https://www.neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/identification?p_p_spp=25358|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100730001224/http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/identification?p_p_spp=25358 |archive-date=2010-07-30 |url-status=dead|title=Identification - Mangrove Hummingbird (Amazilia boucardi) - Neotropical Birds|accessdate=2015-04-10}}</ref> ''Pelliciera rhizophorae'' is the only species in the genus '''''Pelliciera''''' which was previously recognized as the only genus in the family '''Pellicieraceae''', but is now included in the family Tetrameristaceae.<ref>{{cite book|title=Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants|author=Takhtadzhi͡an, A.L.|date=1997|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231100984|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pnCVQjDUfuEC|page=165|accessdate=2015-04-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants|author=Cronquist, A.|date=1981|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231038805|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EB6qflbmcrwC|page=330|accessdate=2015-04-10}}</ref><ref>{{GRIN| Pelliciera rhizophorae|27150}}</ref>
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Category:Ericales Category:Mangroves Category:Flora of Central America Category:Flora of Colombia Category:Flora of Ecuador Category:Monotypic Ericales genera Category:Tropical Eastern Pacific flora