Biology:Syringodium
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Short description: Genus of aquatic plants
| Syringodium | |
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| Syringodium isoetifolium and Acropora sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Cymodoceaceae |
| Genus: | Syringodium Kütz.[1] |
| Type species | |
| Syringodium filiforme[1] Kütz.
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Syringodium is a genus in the family Cymodoceaceae described as a genus in 1860.[3][4] It is found along shorelines of tropical and subtropical marine environments (Indian and Pacific Oceans, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico).[2]
Species
There are two recognised species[2]
- Syringodium filiforme Kütz. - shores of Gulf of Mexico (Texas LA MS FL, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Yucatán Peninsula), and Caribbean (Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Greater + Lesser Antilles, Central America, Venezuela, Colombia)
- Syringodium isoetifolium - Indian + western Pacific shores including Red Sea, Persian Gulf, South China Sea: Africa (Egypt to Mozambique, Madagascar , Socotra, Seychelles, Mauritius, Réunion, Maldives, Andaman & Nicobar, Arabian Peninsula, Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, southern China , Papuasia, northern Australia , Papuasia, Micronesia
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 In: Algae Marinae Exsiccatae 9: no. 426. 1860. "Name - Syringodium Kütz.". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40009239. Retrieved February 16, 2010. "Type Specimens: Syringodium filiforme"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew" (in en-GB). http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=287694.
- ↑ Kützing, Friedrich Traugott. 1860. Algae Marinae Exsiccatae 9: 426
- ↑ "Tropicos | Name - !Syringodium Kütz.". http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40009239.
Wikidata ☰ Q2705739 entry
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