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Engelmann's Seagrass
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IUCN NT · Near threatened

Engelmann's Seagrass

Halophila engelmannii

Halophila engelmannii, commonly known as star grass and Engelmann's seagrass, is a flowering plant, a seagrass in the family Hydrocharitaceae. It grows underwater on sandy or muddy sea floors in shallow parts of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 163513.