Zostera capensis

Southern African eelgrass
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Zosteraceae
Genus: Zostera
Species: Z. capensis
Binomial name
Zostera capensis
Setch.
Synonyms

Nanozostera capensis (Setch.) Toml. & Posl.

Zostera capensis is a species of eelgrass growing along the shores of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar, Angola and the Cape Provinces and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.[1][2][3]

References

  1. William Albert Setchell. 1933. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 19: 815
  2. Toml. & Posl., Taxon 50: 432 (2001), Nanozostera capensis
  3. "Zostera capensis". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
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