Ruppia maritima L.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Ruppiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Ruppia maritima L.

  • Description

    Species Description - Stems usually whitish, often 1 m. long, the internodes irregular, naked. Leaves 2-8 cm. long, 1.5 mm. or less wide; sheaths with a short free tip; peduncles in fruit sometimes 0.3 m. long; pedicels 4-6 in a cluster, 1-3.5 cm. long; drupes with a dark hard shell, ovoid, about 2 mm. long, often oblique or gibbous at the base, pointed with the long style, but varying much in shape; forms with very short peduncles and pedicels, and with broad, strongly marked sheaths occur.

  • Distribution

    In shallow salt and hrackish water throughout the archipelago : Coast of Eastern North America; Bermuda; Cuba to Trinidad; temperate and tropical regions of the Old World. Ditch-grass.

    North America| Bermuda South America| Cuba South America| Trinidad and Tobago South America|