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Syringodium isoetifolium
Syringodium isoetifolium, commonly known as noodle seagrass, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cymodoceaceae, growing underwater in marine habitats. It forms seagrass meadows in shallow sandy or muddy locations in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
This seagrass is sensitive to light deprivation and a lowering of salinity in its environment. In a major flooding event in Queensland, half the seagrasses were lost in a shallow study area in Moreton Bay, the Syringodium isoetifolium disappearing almost completely while Zostera muelleri and other seagrass species survived, relatively unaffected. Another Australian study examined the likelihood of Syringodium isoetifolium becoming invasive if its range changed as a result of climate change. In this experiment, a small patch of Syringodium isoetifolium was established in a tropical subtidal area, and the area covered by the plant increased in size by 800% in a fifteen-year period, mostly through clonal growth.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Syringodium isoetifolium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
