In Australia, New Guinea and the southwestern Pacific seven taxa are recognised in Sonneratia, of which three species are redescribed in view of their Indo-Malesian counterparts ( S. alba, S. caseolaris, S. ovata), one species is redescribed from its most likely Indo-Malesian equivalent (S. lanceolata, being distinct from S. caseolaris), one widespread hybrid is fully described (S. x gulngai being the putative synonym of S. alba x S. caseolaris), and two other hybrids (S. alba x S. gulngai, S. alba x S. lanceolata) of very limited occurrence are described as sub-units of their closest ‘parental’ forms. A key, descriptions and full synonymy are given as well as 2 distribution maps, 6 other figures and one table.