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Seagrasses

LC control no.sh 85119300
LC classificationQK495.A14 Botany
SH393 Culture
Topical headingSeagrasses
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Variant(s)Grasses, Sea
Sea grasses
Seagrass
See alsoMarine plants
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Monocotyledons
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Found inSeagrass in Australia, c1999.
Dawes, C.J. Marine botany, 1998: p. 303 (Only 58 species of 300,000 flowering plants have adapted to marine habitat - all monocots. Seagrasses are most closely related to plants in class Heliobiae and are not true grasses of the family Poaceae.)
Biology of seagrasses, 1989: p. 14 (At present there is worldwide recognition of 58 seagrass species belonging to 12 genera, four families, & two orders. Of these 30 species in 11 genera occur in Australia.)