Phyllospadix
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| Close-up photo of a leaf blade of a Phyllospadix species (surfgrass) with a marine snail on the leaves. | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Zosteraceae |
| Genus: | Phyllospadix Hooker (1840) |
Phyllospadix, commonly known as surfgrass,[1] is a genus of seagrass, a flowering plant in the family Zosteraceae, described as a genus in 1840.[2][3][4][5] Phyllospadix grows in marine waters along the coasts of the temperate North Pacific.[5]
It is one of the seagrass genera that can perform completely submerged pollination.[6]
Species
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- Phyllospadix iwatensis – China, Korea, Japan, Russian Far East
- Phyllospadix japonicus – China, Korea, Japan
- Phyllospadix juzepczukii – Russian Far East
- Phyllospadix scouleri (type species) – Alaska to Baja California
- Phyllospadix serrulatus – Alaska, British Columbia, Washington
- Phyllospadix torreyi – British Columbia to northwestern Mexico
References
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- ^ Hooker, William Jackson. 1840. Flora boreali-americana, or, the botany of the northern parts of British America 2: 171 description in Latin, commentary and habitat information in English
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- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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External links
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