Syringodium filiforme F.T. Kützing in R.F. Hohenacker. Manatee-grass. Hab: Estuarine waters. Dist: Panhandle FL, peninsular FL, westward along the Gulf Coast, and in the West Indies. Syringodium is occasionally cast ashore in Georgia and the Carolinas following hurricanes, but there is no evidence that it grows along the Atlantic coast north of Florida.
Origin/Endemic status: Native
Synonymy: = FNA22, K3, K4, Meso6, WH3, Green & Short (2003); = Cymodocea filiformis (Kütz. in Hohen.) Correll – GW1, K1, SFla, Tx; = Cymodocea manatorum Asch. – S, S13
Wetland Indicator Status:
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: OBL
- Great Plains: OBL
Heliophily ?: 2
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