Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Thalassia testudinum Konig, Ann. Bot. K. & S. 2: 96. 1805
Thalassia vitrariorum Pers. Syn. PI. 2 : 563. 1807.
Base of the short stem covered by the remains of old leaves; leaf -blades linear-strapshaped, 1-3 dm. long, 7-10 mm. wide, glabrous, obtuse, rounded at the apex, witheringpersistent ; spathe 2-cleft, its lobes elliptic, papillose-dentate on the margins ; perianthlobes in both kinds of flowers oblong, rounded above, 10-12 mm. long ; anthers 8 mm. long, linear ; stigmas 9-12, linear-filiform, pilose, grooved on the inside, about 1 cm. long ; fruit (young) elliptic-fusiform, short-stalked and short-beaked, densely mammillate.
Type locality : Sea near the shores of Antigua [West Indies] .
Distribution: Coasts of Peninsular Florida, Bermuda, Bahamas, Antilles, and Venezuela.
- bibliographic citation
- Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg, Norman Taylor, Nathaniel Lord Britton, John Kunkel Small, George Valentine Nash. 1909. PANDANALES-POALES; TYPHACEAE, SPARGANACEAE, ELODEACEAE, HYDROCHARITACEAE, ZANNICHELLIACEAE, ZOSTERACEAE, CYMODOCEACEAE, NAIADACEAE, LILAEACEAE, SCHEUCHZERIACEAE, ALISMACEAE, BUTOMACEAE, POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
