Cassipourea elliptica is a species of flowering plant in the Rhizophoraceae family. It is a shrub or tree native to the tropical Americas, ranging from eastern Mexico through Central America and the Caribbean to northern Brazil.
The species was first described as Legnotis elliptica by Olof Swartz in 1788. In 1811 Jean Louis Marie Poiret placed the species in genus Cassipourea as C. elliptica.