Karyomorphometric analysis of somatic chromosomes of selected seagrasses of families Hydrocharitaceae and Cymodoceaceae

Morphological plasticity in a Fijian Seagrass: Halophila ovalis subsp. bullosa

“…In addition to these impediments, ecological studies of seagrasses can be confounded by taxonomic uncertainty. Despite seagrasses representing less than 0.1% of all known angiosperm taxa, the taxonomic status of some species remains unclear, with high morphological similarity within certain groups of taxa contributing to this (Vanitha et al, 2016). For a few taxa, convergent morphology has been documented (Waycott et al, 2006), which along with morphological plasticity (Maxwell et al, 2014;McDonald et al, 2016), can render species identification using traditional phenotypic characters alone ineffective, or highly challenging.…”

The current status of Halophila beccarii: An ecologically significant, yet vulnerable seagrass of India

“…Karyomorphological studies of H. beccarii indicated the presence of diploid (2n=18) chromosomes (Vanitha et al, 2016), whereas genetic diversity and phylogeny of H. beccarii was carried out by Kar et al, (2018) indicating its polymorphic nature. However, both of these molecular studies have been carried out on H. beccarii from Tamil Nadu and Odisha on the east coast respectively.…”