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Zostera marina L.






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Zostera L. (アマモ, grass-wrack)


Body: monoecism
Leaf margin: entire
Z. marina L. (アマモ)
Z. caespitosa Miki (スゲアマモ)
Z. asiatica Miki (オオアマモ)
Z. caulescens Miki (タチアマモ), southern Hokkaido
Z. nana Roth (コアマモ)

Zostera marina in Hokkaido


Amamo (アマモ, 甘藻), eel grass

リュウグウノオトヒメノモトユイノキリハズシ (龍宮乙姫元結切外) = the longest Japanese common name

Lifeform: perennial seagrass
Distribution: beteween temperate to sub-arctic regions in the Northern Hemisphere
Habitat: sandy beaches at a few meters in water depth, often developing seaweed bed (seaweed forest) (藻場)
Seed dispersal: water
Use: edible for American Natives
索引

ST1 ST2
[1] a specimen collected on Kakijima Island (蠣島), Akkeshi (厚岸), eastern Hokkaido, on June 24 1982.

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