LC control no. | sh 85119300 |
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LC classification | QK495.A14 Botany SH393 Culture |
Topical heading | Seagrasses |
Variant(s) | Grasses, Sea Sea grasses Seagrass |
See also | Marine plants Monocotyledons |
Found in | Seagrass 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.) |