Cymodocea rotundata
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Description
Fruit 1 or 2 together, sessile, semi-circular, laterally compressed, 10 mm long, 6 mm wide and 1.5 mm thick, with 3 dorsal, parallel ridges of which the median one is set with 6-8 conspicuous, acute teeth, and one ventral ridge bearing 3 or 4 teeth;
Distribution
Andamans present, Asia-Tropical: Bismarck Archipelago (Bismarck Archipelago present); Borneo present; Jawa (Jawa present); Lesser Sunda Is. present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Maluku (Maluku present); New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Sumatera (Sumatera absent); Vietnam (Vietnam present), Australasia: Queensland (Queensland present), Carolines present, Gulf of Thailand present, Madagascar present, Malesia into the western Pacific present, New Caledonia present, Nicobars present, Riau Islands present, Ryukyu Islands present, along the coast of Africa present, along the coasts of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific present, along the southern coast of the Indian Peninsula present, from the Red Sea as far south as Maputu present
Cymodocea rotundata is widely distributedalong the coasts of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific. It extends along the coast of Africafrom the Red Sea as far south as Maputu and Madagascar. Further, it has been found along the southern coast of the Indian Peninsula, Andamans and Nicobars, and it extends through Malesia into the western Pacific (Bismarck Archipelago, Carolines, New Caledonia and Queensland) and its marginal seas (Gulf of Thailand, Vietnam, the Ryukyu Islands). It is wide-ly distributed in Malesia: Riau Islands, Peninsular Malaysia, Java, Philippines, Borneo, Celebes, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, and New Guinea. It has not been recorded from Sumatra, probably due to under-collecting.
Citation
Backer & Bakh.f. 1968 – In: Fl. Java: 9
Hartog 1970: Sea-grasses of the World: 166: f. 47, 49b
Tomascik, Mah, Nontji & Moosa 1997: 851, 854. – In: Ecology of the Indonesian seas: f. 18.11 (map), 18.19, 18.21a.
Meñez, Phillips & Calumpong 1983: p. 8. – In: Smithson. Contr. Mar. Sci.: f. 3, 4 (map)
Asch. 1907 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 11: 147
Backer 1925 – In: Handb. Fl. Java: 50
Brouns 1986: p. 74. – In: Science in New Guinea: f. 5