Characteristics
Monocots
Ruppia maritima L.
WIGEONGRASS
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This species is treated as a cosmopolitan complex and the few other species of Ruppia are geographically restricted to Africa, Asia, and Oceania (Ito et al. 2010).
Native
OBL (NWPL)
Classification
Citation
RUPPIA MARITIMA Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 127. 1753.
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"Buccaferrea", without data (lectotype: Micheli, Nov. Pl. Gen. t. 35. 1729). Lectotypified by Setchell, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4. 25: 470. 1946.