Plants of Saint Lucia
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Ruppiaceae
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(1 species)
Ruppia maritima
Linnaeus
, Sp. Pl. 1: 127. 1753.
Indigenous rare aquatic herb of shallow still seawater and brackish water, often close to mangrove edge.
Nearly cosmopolitan.