Phyllospadix

Surfgrass
	Close-up photo of a leaf blade of a Phyllospadix species (surfgrass) with a marine snail on the leaves.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Alismatales
Family:	Zosteraceae
Genus:	Phyllospadix; Hooker (1840)

Phyllospadix, commonly known as surfgrass,^[1] is a genus of seagrass, a flowering plant in the family Zosteraceae, described as a genus in 1840.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] Phyllospadix grows in marine waters along the coasts of the temperate North Pacific.^[5]

It is one of the seagrass genera that can perform completely submerged pollination.^[6]

Species

^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Phyllospadix". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
^ Hooker, William Jackson. 1840. Flora boreali-americana, or, the botany of the northern parts of British America 2: 171 description in Latin, commentary and habitat information in English
^ Hooker, William Jackson. 1840. Flora boreali-americana, or, the botany of the northern parts of British America 2: figure CLXXXVI line drawing as illustration
^ "Tropicos | Name - !Phyllospadix Hook". www.tropicos.org. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
^ ^a ^b Larkum, Anthony W.D.; Duarte, Carlos; Orth, Robert J., eds. (2005). "Taxonomy and biogeorgraphy of seagrasses". Seagrasses: Biology, Ecology and Conservation. Springer-Verlag New York, LLC. ISBN 978-1-4020-2942-4.
^ "Judith Connor". Retrieved 2017-02-02.
^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

Guiry, M.D.; Guiry, G.M. (2008). "Phyllospadix". AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. Retrieved 2009-02-21.

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