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Zostera marina

Flowering Plants

Zostera marina, commonly called common eelgrass or eelgrass, is a flowering vascular plant and one of many kinds of seagrass. It is a saline, soft sediment submerged plant native to marine coastlines of the northern latitudes, from subtropical to subpolar regions of North America and Eurasia. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts

Classification

Diet

Photosynthetic Autotroph 1

System (Realm)

Marine 1

Relationship to People

Used in Traditional Medicine 2

Living or Extinct

Yes 3

Comparison

NatureServe Rank

G5 Secure 4

CITES Appendix

Not Listed 5

Scientific Name

Zostera marina 3

Conservation Status

Least Concern 1

Connections

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Source Zostera marina (Wikidata)

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Source Zostera marina (Wikipedia)

In Ecosystem

Source Zostera marina (Wikipedia)

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Sources

1. Zostera marina (Wikipedia)

Introduction
It is a saline soft-sediment submerged plant native to marine environments on the coastlines of northern latitudes from subtropical to subpolar regions of North America and Eurasia.
Lead, sentence naming the group it belongs to
Zostera marina is a flowering vascular plant species as one of many kinds of seagrass, with this species known primarily by the English name of common eelgrass or eelgrass, with seawrack much less used, and refers to the plant after breaking loose from the submerged wetland soil, and drifting free with ocean current and waves to a coast seashore.
Infobox: status
LC
In Biome: Marine, Wikipedia intro: "ocean current and waves to a coast seashore. It is a saline soft-sediment submerged plant native to marine environments on the coastlines of northern latitudes..."
In Ecosystem: Wadden Sea, Threats
Human activities such as dredging and trawling damage eelgrass meadows; practices used in scallop and mussel harvesting in the Wadden Sea have cleared much eelgrass from the sea bottom there.

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2. Plants For A Future: Zostera marina

Plants For A FutureMedicinal Uses

Quote, Medicinal Uses

The leaves are used in the treatment of dropsy, goitre and women's illnesses.

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3. Zostera marina (Wikidata)

Wikidata

Wikidata Q21128 (P225 taxon name)
Statements section, conservation status (P141)
IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
Child Taxon Of: Alismatales, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain

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4. NatureServe Explorer: Zostera marina

NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)

Quote, Global rank (roundedGRank)

"roundedGRank": "G5"

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5. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Plantae

UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 45

Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 45

"cites_listing":"I/II/III/NC","eu_listing":"A/B/C/D/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Plantae","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":null,"family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[{"name":"Plants","language":"EN"},{"name":"Flora","language":"EN"}],"cites_listings":[]

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Plant (Wikipedia)

Lead, whole group is photosynthetic

Quote, Lead, whole group is photosynthetic

They are predominantly photosynthetic or came from photosynthetic ancestors, meaning that they obtain their energy from sunlight by using the green pigment chlorophyll in their chloroplasts to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water.

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