Phyllospadix

{{Short description|Genus of aquatic plants}}

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| 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 = Hooker (1840)

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Phyllospadix, commonly known as surfgrass,{{PLANTS|id=PHYLL4|taxon=Phyllospadix|accessdate=30 September 2015}} is a genus of seagrass, a flowering plant in the family Zosteraceae, described as a genus in 1840.[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[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{{Cite web|url=http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40007849|title=Tropicos {{!}} Name - !Phyllospadix Hook.|website=www.tropicos.org|access-date=2017-02-02}}{{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}} Phyllospadix grows in marine waters along the coasts of the temperate North Pacific.

It is one of the seagrass genera that can perform completely submerged pollination.{{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}}