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A planted reef aquarium filled with Bladed sand moss (Caulerpa prolifera) A seagrass aquarium housing several seagrass meadow inhabitants. Aquatic plants are used to give the aquarium a natural appearance, oxygenate the water, and provide habitat for fish, especially fry (babies) and for invertebrates.
Marine botany is the study of flowering vascular plant species and marine algae that live in shallow seawater of the open ocean and the littoral zone, along shorelines of the intertidal zone, coastal wetlands, and low-salinity brackish water of estuaries. It is a branch of marine biology and botany.
The so-called "stinging seaweed" Microcoleus lyngbyaceus is a filamentous cyanobacteria which contains toxins including lyngbyatoxin-a and debromoaplysiatoxin. Direct skin contact can cause seaweed dermatitis characterized by painful, burning lesions that last for days.
Other plants that colonised the sea, ... Another unique feature of cell walls of seagrasses is the occurrence of unusual pectic polysaccharides called apiogalacturonans.
Aquatic plants also referred to as hydrophytes [1] ... Examples include Pistia spp. commonly called water lettuce, water cabbage or Nile cabbage. [27]
Sargassum is a genus of brown macroalgae in the order Fucales of the Phaeophyceae class. [1] Numerous species are distributed throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world, where they generally inhabit shallow water and coral reefs, and the genus is widely known for its planktonic (free-floating) species.
Seaweed were generally considered homologues of terrestrial plants, [11] but are only very distantly related to plants, and have evolved plant-like structures through convergent evolution. [12] Where plants have leaves, stems, and reproductive organs, kelp have independently evolved blades, stipes, and sporangia.
Edible seaweed, or sea vegetables, are seaweeds that can be eaten and used for culinary purposes. [1] They typically contain high amounts of fiber . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] They may belong to one of several groups of multicellular algae : the red algae , green algae , and brown algae . [ 2 ]