{{Short description|Genus of aquatic plants}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = Surfgrass | image = Tectura palacea 3.jpg | image_caption = Close-up photo of a leaf blade of a ''Phyllospadix'' species (surfgrass) with a marine snail on the leaves. | taxon = Phyllospadix | authority = [[William Jackson Hooker|Hooker]] (1840) }} [[File:Tectura palacea.jpg|thumb|''Phyllospadix'' is a food source for many animals including this ''[[Tectura palacea]]''.]]
'''''Phyllospadix''''', commonly known as '''surfgrass''',<ref>{{PLANTS|id=PHYLL4|taxon=Phyllospadix|accessdate=30 September 2015}}</ref> is a genus of [[seagrass]], a [[flowering plant]] in the family [[Zosteraceae]], described as a genus in 1840.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/415450#page/174/mode/1up Hooker, William Jackson. 1840. Flora boreali-americana, or, the botany of the northern parts of British America 2: 171] description in Latin, commentary and habitat information in English</ref><ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/415450#page/399/mode/1up Hooker, William Jackson. 1840. Flora boreali-americana, or, the botany of the northern parts of British America 2: figure CLXXXVI] line drawing as illustration</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40007849|title=Tropicos {{!}} Name - !Phyllospadix Hook.|website=www.tropicos.org|access-date=2017-02-02}}</ref><ref name=Larkum>{{cite book|editor-last= Larkum |editor-first=Anthony W.D. |editor2-last=Duarte|editor2-first=Carlos|editor3-last=Orth|editor3-first= Robert J.|contribution = Taxonomy and biogeorgraphy of seagrasses| title = Seagrasses: Biology, Ecology and Conservation |publisher= Springer-Verlag New York, LLC|year=2005|isbn=978-1-4020-2942-4}}</ref> ''Phyllospadix'' grows in [[Marine (ocean)|marine]] waters along the coasts of the temperate [[Pacific Ocean|North Pacific]].<ref name=Larkum />
It is one of the seagrass genera that can perform completely submerged [[pollination]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.mbari.org/staff/conn/botany/seagrass/erika/SEX.HTM|title=Judith Connor|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-02|archive-date=2015-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016031824/http://www.mbari.org/staff/conn/botany/seagrass/erika/SEX.HTM|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Species == ;Accepted species<ref>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=308458 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> *''[[Phyllospadix iwatensis]]'' – [[China]], [[Korea]], [[Japan]], [[Russian Far East]] *''[[Phyllospadix japonicus]]'' – [[China]], [[Korea]], [[Japan]] *''[[Phyllospadix juzepczukii]]'' – [[Russian Far East]] *''[[Phyllospadix scouleri]]'' (type species) – [[Alaska]] to [[Baja California]] *''[[Phyllospadix serrulatus]]'' – [[Alaska]], [[British Columbia]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]] *''[[Phyllospadix torreyi]]'' – [[British Columbia]] to northwestern [[Mexico]]
== References == {{Reflist}}
*{{cite web|last=Guiry|first=M.D.|last2=Guiry|first2=G.M.|year=2008|title=Phyllospadix|work=[[AlgaeBase]]|publisher=World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway|url=http://www.algaebase.org/search/genus/detail/?genus_id=42996|access-date= 2009-02-21}}
== External links == {{Commons category|Phyllospadix}} *[http://www.algaebase.org/search/pictures/?currentMethod=imgs&fromSearch=yes&displayCount=20&query=Phyllospadix Images] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302004016/http://www.algaebase.org/search/pictures/?currentMethod=imgs&fromSearch=yes&displayCount=20&query=Phyllospadix |date=2012-03-02 }} of ''Phyllospadix'' at [[Algaebase]]
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[[Category:Phyllospadix| ]] [[Category:Alismatales genera]] [[Category:Flora of the Pacific]] [[Category:Salt marsh plants]]
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