Syringodium
Genus of aquatic plants
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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]
| Syringodium | |
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| Syringodium isoetifolium and Acropora sp. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Cymodoceaceae |
| Genus: | Syringodium Kütz.[1] |
| Type species | |
| Syringodium filiforme[1] | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Species
There are two recognised species[2]
- Syringodium filiforme Kütz. - shores of Gulf of Mexico (TX 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
