Field Guide to Seagrasses of the Red Sea - Seagrass-Watch

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often covered by dense leaflets and looks like leaves develop directly from rhizome. Rhizome The rhizome is thin and often covered by leaf scars. Microscopic Leaf Anatomy Cells are small, regular and rectangular in shape (Plate 2). Similar Species • Halodule uninervis has three distinct points or “teeth” at the leaf tip with the mid “tooth” not showing any splitting. Key Features • Short erect stem often with numerous leaf scars (Plate 3). • Very narrow leaf blade. • Bluntly rounded leaf tip with serration (Plate 4). Diagnostic Features • The black central leaf vein split into two at the leaf tip (Plate 4). Habitat Shallow Coastal/Back Reef Reef Deep Coastal 20
Leaf blade Close-up area Leaf sheath (Plate 2) Mag. 20x Rhizome (Plate 1) Mag. 20x Leaf tip serrations Leaf scars Split mid vein (Plate 3) Mag. 2x (Plate 4) Field Guide to Seagrasses of the Red Sea 21
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Page 12 and 13: history. Peter Forsskål, a Swedish
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Page 19 and 20: Bay (or Sharm) A Sharm is the Arabi
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Page 23 and 24: Cymodocea rotundata Ehrenberg & Hem
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Page 29: Halodule pinifolia (Miki) den Harto
Page 33 and 34: Stem The stems are short, erect and
Page 35 and 36: Syringodium isoetifolium (Ascherson
Page 37 and 38: Cylindrical leaf blade Close-up are
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Page 41 and 42: Wide flat leaf sheath Leaf scars on
Page 43 and 44: Enhalus acoroides (L.f.) Royle Enha
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Page 49 and 50: Halophila ovalis (R. Brown) Hooker
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Page 53 and 54: Rhizome The rhizome is smooth, thin
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Page 57 and 58: Leaf blade Mid vein Lopsided leaf s
Page 59 and 60: Microscopic Leaf Anatomy Cell shape
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