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Cymodoceaceae

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Flowering Plants · Monocotyledons

Part of the book series: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants ((FAMILIES GENERA,volume 4))

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Perennial marine herbs with creeping, monopodially or sympodially branched rhizomes. Roots often branched, with few to many root hairs. Leaves alternate, distichously arranged, with distinct blade, sheathing base and a ligule between sheath and blade; sheath after being shed leaving an open or closed circular scar on stem; blade linear, flat or terete; tannin cells numerous; stomata absent. Squamules present in each leaf axil. Inflorescence cymose or flowers solitary. Flowers dioecious, naked, enclosed by leaflike bracts; male flowers subsessile or pedicellate, with 2 tetrasporangiate stamens; female flowers of 2 free ovaries, each with a long stylulus which is unbranched or divided into 2–3 filiform stigmatic stylodia; carpels 1-ovulate; usually only 1 carpel developing into fruit. Fruit indehiscent; seeds germinating on parent plant in Amphibolis and Thalassodendron.

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Kuo, J., McComb, A.J. (1998). Cymodoceaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. (eds) Flowering Plants · Monocotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03531-3_14

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