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Enhalus acoroides
Enhalus acoroides is a large, slow-growing seagrass found in shallow tropical coastal waters of the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. It is a marine plant, so it grows fully submerged in seawater rather than as a garden or houseplant.
Enhalus is a monotypic genus of marine flowering plants. The sole species is Enhalus acoroides. Enhalus is a large seagrass native to coastal waters of the tropical Indian and Western Pacific Oceans. It is the only species of seagrass that does aerial surface pollination in which the pollen and the styles remain dry. Enhalus is surface pollinated with male flowers that detach from the plant to float on the surface until they reach a female flower where pollination can occur. Enhalus acoroides is considered a slow-growing, "climax" species.
Enhalus acoroides is a littoral species living on coral substrates or in shallow soft substrates like mud and sand, depending on region. It can be found as far east as Papua New Guinea and can range from the Red Sea south to northern Mozambique in the Indian Ocean. It grows in single-species meadows and in mixed meadows of seagrasses mainly with Thallassia hemprichii, where it comprises 90% of the meadow biomass. Enhalus acoroides grows best just above the level of mean low water springs and grows to generally 4 meters deep.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Enhalus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
