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Cymodoceaceae
Cymodocea rotundata
Cymodocea rotundata
Also known as Phucagrostis rotundata
Tropical Plants · Native Plants · Seagrass · Marine Plant · Aquatic · Tropical · Cymodocea · Indo-Pacific · Saltwater · Coastal · Specialist · Ecology
Cymodocea rotundata is a tropical marine seagrass that grows fully submerged in shallow, warm Indo-Pacific coastal waters and is not suitable for home cultivation. It plays a vital ecological role as a seagrass meadow species, providing habitat and food for marine life including dugongs and sea turtles. This species is strictly for specialist marine aquaculture or ecological restoration projects.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 8 hours
- Watering
- Fully aquatic — requires permanent submersion in marine or brackish water · Continuously submerged in saltwater
- Maintenance
- High
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 5.5–7
- Temperature
- -25°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed
Hardiness
USDA 4b-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 6 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Aldabra, Andaman Is., Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Caroline Is., Comoros, Egypt, Eritrea, Hainan, India, Jawa, Kenya, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maluku, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Myanmar, Nansei-Shoto
Sources: trefle
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