Two smart device apps are available:

Australian Mangrove ID

Mangrove Click! Australia: expert ID for Australia's mangrove plants.

MangroveWatch Publication and for iPhone and iPad (2016. ISBN: 978-0-9923659-2-9).

World Mangrove ID : expert information at your fingertips

World Mangrove iD’ is a living expert guide to all mangrove plants worldwide. The app has 2 published versions, for android (2014, ISBN: ISBN 978-0-9923659-1-2) and for iPhone and iPad (2013, ISBN: 978-0-9923659-0-5). You will find answers to your questions about mangroves in this authoritative guide. 

Happy Mangroving!


"It is like having your very own mangrove expert on call - at home, in the office, in the field!"

The app works remotely once you have it downloaded! The app was developed by Norm Duke for MangroveWatch Ltd, the charitable, not-for-profit environmental monitoring NGO for tidal wetlands. 

This species guide provides more than 800 exquisite images100 world distribution records and authoritative botanical descriptions of 85 mangrove plant species, hybrids and varieties occurring worldwide; plus a selection of 15 common associate plants you are likely to come across.

You are invited to help fill gaps revealed in the guide. It could be a new image, or just a better one, or, it could be more information on peak flowering and fruiting periods, or even a new species! Your observations might increase our understanding of what is happening in your local mangroves!

Let us know if a country species list needs correction or updating. Use the Capture facility to send a message and an image showing diagnostic parts of a specimen to verify your observations; along with the location where it was growing.

Your contribution maybe more important than you might imagine; you will be acknowledged, especially when any of your information is used in future upgrades of the guide.