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Ruppia maritima - Zannichellia palustris Saline Aquatic Vegetation Macrogroup | NatureServe Biotics 2019
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Name: Ruppia maritima - Zannichellia palustris Saline Aquatic Vegetation Macrogroup
Reference: NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description: This macrogroup occurs globally in tropical and temperate brackish estuarine waters. In the western Atlantic Ocean, this widely distributed macrogroup includes estuarine and marine beds of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, from New England to Texas and Florida. <i>Ruppia maritima</i> is the only seagrass capable of growing in freshwater and is therefore often found in the oligohaline to mesohaline (i.e., brackish) upper reaches of estuaries and lower reaches of tidal creeks, bayous and rivers. Because it often behaves as an annual, the distribution and abundance of <i>Ruppia maritima</i> is often shifting both spatially and temporally. Other species characteristic of the brackish to fresh estuarine waters, include <i>Zannichellia palustris</i> and <i>Stuckenia pectinata</i>, which also occur globally. Rarely, some salt-tolerant species of otherwise freshwater genera may occur. 
Accession Code: urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40545-{C0B365A1-B4B6-4D7E-917A-452797AD4B50}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
      Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization)
Perspective from: 15-Oct-2014 to: ongoing
      Names:   UID: ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.860708 NatureServe ExplorerNatureServe Explorer logo
  Code: M186
  Scientific: Ruppia maritima - Zannichellia palustris Saline Aquatic Vegetation Macrogroup