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''Phyllospadix'', surfgrass, is a genus of seagrass, a flowering plant in the family Zosteraceae, described as a genus in 1840. ''Phyllospadix'' grows in
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''Phyllospadix'', surfgrass, is a genus of seagrass, a flowering plant in the family Zosteraceae, described as a genus in 1840. ''Phyllospadix'' grows in marine
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waters along the coasts of the temperate North Pacific.
It is one of the seagrass genera that can perform completely submerged pollination.
Species
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Phyllospadix iwatensis
''Phyllospadix iwatensis'' is a plant species found along the seacoasts of Japan, Korea, China (Hebei, Liaoning, Shandong), and the Russian Far East (Sakhalin, Primorye and the Kuril Islands). It was first discovered in 1929 near on the Miyako Pe ...
'' – China
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, Korea, Japan
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, Russian Far East
*''Phyllospadix japonicus
''Phyllospadix japonicus'', known as Asian surfgrass, is a plant species found along the seacoasts of Japan, Korea, China (Hebei, Liaoning, Shandong). It occurs in the intertidal zone along the shore.
''Phyllospadix japonicus '' is a perennial h ...
'' – China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
, Korea, Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
*''Phyllospadix juzepczukii
''Phyllospadix juzepczukii'' is a plant species known only from shores of the Russian Far East (Sakhalin, Khabarovsk and Primorye). It grows in salt marshes along the intertidal zones of the Sea of Okhotsk
The Sea of Okhotsk ( rus, Охо́т� ...
'' – Russian Far East
*''Phyllospadix scouleri
''Phyllospadix scouleri'', or Scouler's surfgrass, is a flowering marine plant in the family Zosteraceae. It is native to the coastline of western North America from the Alaskan panhandle to Baja California.
This slender, vivid green plant has ...
'' (type species) – Alaska to Baja California
*''Phyllospadix serrulatus
''Phyllospadix serrulatus'' is a species of aquatic plant in the Zosteraceae
Zosteraceae (one of the four seagrasses families, Kubitzki ed. 1998) is a family of marine perennial flowering plants found in temperate and subtropical coastal wate ...
'' – Alaska, British Columbia, Washington
*'' Phyllospadix torreyi'' – British Columbia to northwestern Mexico
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