Scientific Name: Zostera muelleri subsp. muelleri

Common Name: dwarf grasswrack

Family Classification (Clade): Monocots

Family: Zosteraceae

Form Description: Perennial seagrass with creeping rhizomes, forming extensive beds. Leaves ranging from 5-10cm in intertidal areas to 60cm long in estuaries.

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

Fruit: Fruit is firm; contains brown shining seeds, 2mm long.

Municipality
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Plant Communities
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Habitat Notes

Intertidal, or permanently submerged in coastal creeks and estuaries on King Island, north-east, Furneaux Group and the east coast.

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.