Scientific Name: Halophila australis

Common Name: sea wrack

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Hydrocharitaceae

Form Description: Submerged, smooth perennial herb with a slender, creeping stem and paired leaves.

Flowers: Male flowers are found among the leaf axils of the prostrate stem, females on erect branches up to 15cm long.

Fruit: Fruit – thin walled, beaked, 7-13mm long .

Municipality
Break O’DayBurnieCentral CoastDorsetGeorge TownGlamorgan-Spring BayHuon ValleyKentishKingboroughLatrobeWest Tamar
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Habitat Notes

At and below the low water level of spring tides. Collected on the east coast, Barnes Bay, Coles Bay and George Town in the north-east.

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