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Flowering Plants · Monocotyledons pp 404–408Cite as

Posidoniaceae

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

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Submersed marine or occasionally estuarine robust perennial herbs with creeping, monopodially branched, cylindrical to flattened rhizomes, the latter bearing a scale at each node and covered with fibrous remains of old sheaths. Roots branched, root hairs rare. Leaves alternate, distichously arranged on the rhizome, with distinct blade and sheathing base. Blade linear, flat, or biconvex to terete, with 3–20 or more longitudinal vascular bundles; squamules numerous; tannin cells numerous; stomata absent. Inflorescence racemose, spikelike on a long, flattened peduncle. Flowers actinomorphic, hermaphroditic, perianthless; stamens 3; anthers sessile, tetrasporangiate, pollen filiform; pollination hydrophilous; carpel 1 with a sessile ornate stigma; ovule 1. Fruit with spongy pericarp, dehiscent. Testa membranous; hypocotyl enlarged storing mainly starch.

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Kuo, J., McComb, A.J. (1998). Posidoniaceae. 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_38

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