genus Spartina


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Noun1.genus Spartina - grass of freshwater swamps and salt marshes of Europe, Africa, America, and South Atlantic islands
Spartina
liliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
family Graminaceae, family Gramineae, family Poaceae, Graminaceae, Gramineae, grass family, Poaceae - the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane
cord grass, cordgrass - any of several perennial grasses of the genus Spartina; some important as coastal soil binders
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Denno, "Comparison of the assemblages of sap-feeding insects (Homoptera-Hemiptera) inhabiting two structurally different salt marsh grasses in the genus Spartina," Environmental Entomology, vol.
An Annotated List of Auchenorrhyncha and Heteroptera Collected in the Coastal Salt Marshes of the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana
Salt glands in grasses were first mentioned as such in the halophytic genus Spartina (Skelding & Winterbotham, 1939), but they had been previously described as hydathodes that secreted salt by Sutherland and Eastwood (1916).
Salt glands in the Poaceae family and their relationship to salinity tolerance
In recent decades salt-adapted grasses of the genus Spartina (cordgrass) have invaded western Pacific coasts including those of Japan and China (Greenberg et al.
Effect of Saltmarsh Cordgrass Spartina alterniflora Invasion Stage on Cerithidea cingulata (Caenogastropoda: Potamididae) Distribution: A Case Study from a Tidal Flat of Western Pacific Ocean China

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