Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Marine herbs with robust, woody, sympodial rhizomes. Stems erect, ± unbranched, bearing 6-8 leaves, arising at intervals of 4 internodes. Leaves: sheath clasping stem; lamina shed together with the sheath, linear, parallel-veined; margin ± serrate; apex rounded, sometimes emarginate. Flowers solitary, terminal, enclosed by 3-4 leafy bracts. Fruit of 1 ovary and a fleshy bract. Germination usually viviparous.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Thalassodendron Flora of Mozambique website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=2357
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
