Seagrass

Seagrass

Seagrass (seagrass) are flowering plants (angiosperms) that can grow well in shallow environments. All the grass is a plant seeded one (monocots) having roots, rhizomes (rhizome), leaves, flowers and fruit as well as a vascular plant that grows in the ground.So very different from seaweed.Seagrass communities are among the lowest limit of the tidal area up to a certain depth where sunlight can still reach the bottom sea ​​(Sitania in Wimbaningrum, 2003). Seagrass alive and present in mid-intertidal areas to depths of 0.5 to 10 m. However it is very abundant in sublitoral area. The number of species are more numerous in the tropics than in in temperate regions (Barber, 1985). Seagrass is a flowering plant that has been fully adjusting to life under the surface of the water. Seagrass live in waters shallow sandy. Similarly, the grass on land, sea grass also form a vast desert and lush on the sea floor that is still affordable by sunlight (Fahruddin, 2002). Tom (2000) stated that the grass is not real grass, but have leaves, stems and roots that can take nutrients from the substrate. Life cycle with most of angiosperms, but the pollen is distributed by water most compared to the wind and insects. Known for the 45 species of seagrass.Seagrasses have high productivity, the 1000 GC / m / yr.