Scientific Name: Heterozostera tasmanica

Common Name: tasman grasswrack

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Zosteraceae

Form Description: Perennial seagrass with creeping rhizomes, forming extensive beds. Leaves 10-25cm long and 1-2mm wide, with 3 nerves.

Flowers: In spathes, large leaf-like structures enclosing the flowers.

Fruit: Seeds are chestnut-brown and shining, 1.75-3mm long.

Municipality
Break O’DayBurnieDorsetFlindersGlamorgan-Spring BayHuon ValleyKing IslandKingboroughWaratah-WynyardWest Coast
Plant Communities
No data available for this species
Habitat Notes

Coastal sands or mud below the low tide level, in the north-west, north-east, east coast and south-west.

General Notes

Sea grass

Propagation Calendar

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Propagation Method
Impractical Propagation material is too difficult to collect or conditions for propagation or cultivation are too specialized.

Seed Information

Cutting & Division Information

Grown by division.