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Halophila stipulacea (Forssk.) Asch.

Synonyms

Barkania bullata, Barkania stipulacea, Halophila balfourii, Halophila madagascariensis, Thalassia bullata, Thalassia stipulacea, Zostera bullata, Zostera stipulacea

Common names

Ashab bahriya, Broadleaf seagrass, Hasheesh bahri

Dry papery stripes of seagrass (Halophila stipulacea) near salt marsh in Purple Island (Jazirat Bin Ghanim). Al Khor, Qatar, March 1, 2010

Pairs of leaves distributed on petioles along a rhizome of seagrass (Halophila stipulacea) extracted from water in area of Ras Al Noof near Al Khor. Qatar, April 18, 2014
AL Khawr Town Road, Al Khor, Qatar

Serrated leaves of seagrass (Halophila stipulacea) extracted from water in area of Ras Al Noof near Al Khor. Qatar, April 18, 2014
AL Khawr Town Road, Al Khor, Qatar

Back lit leaves of seagrass (Halophila stipulacea) extracted from water in area of Ras Al Noof near Al Khor. Qatar, April 18, 2014
AL Khawr Town Road, Al Khor, Qatar

Bunch of leaves of seagrass (Halophila stipulacea) extracted from water in area of Ras Al Noof near Al Khor. Qatar, April 18, 2014
AL Khawr Town Road, Al Khor, Qatar

Back lit leaves of seagrass (Halophila stipulacea) taken from Al Khor. Qatar, April 18, 2014

Pairs of leaves distributed on petioles along a rhizome of seagrass (Halophila stipulacea) in Purple Island (Jazirat Bin Ghanim). Al Khor, Qatar, October 9, 2014
Rose area Road, Qatar

Seagrass (Halophila stipulacea) in Purple Island (Jazirat Bin Ghanim). Al Khor, Qatar, October 9, 2014
Rose area Road, Qatar

Leaves of seagrass (Halophila stipulacea) on Purple Island (Jazirat Bin Ghanim). Al Khor, Qatar, January 9, 2015
Rose area Road, Qatar

Leaves of seagrass (Halophila stipulacea) with white backgrouns on Purple Island (Jazirat Bin Ghanim). Al Khor, Qatar, January 9, 2015
Rose area Road, Qatar

Back lit leaves of seagrass (Halophila stipulacea) on Purple Island (Jazirat Bin Ghanim). Al Khor, Qatar, January 9, 2015
Rose area Road, Qatar

Links

• Flora of Qatar.
• Unknown plants or plants without names.
• Duplicate and extra pictures of plants.
• Earlier version of collection of plants.
• Other collections of pictures from Qatar: Lizards of Qatar, Cats of Qatar, Camels of Qatar, and Fish of Qatar.
• Picture archives.
• Home page of A. Sergeev.

Outside links

• Halophila stipulacea from www.catalogueoflife.org
• Ekhlas M. M. Abdel Bary, The Flora of Qatar, Volume I: The Dicotyledons. Doha 2012
• Flora of Qatar, Volume II: The Monocotyledons
• Illustrated Checklist of the Flora of Qatar. John Norton et al. 2009
• Qatar eNature. Flora
• Ali Al-Rawi, Flowering plants of Kuwait, 1985
• Plants of Kuwait
• Flora of Saudi Arabia, Al-Qassim Region
• Flora of Eastern Saudi Arabia by Rain and Dust at Flickr
• Plants of South-Western Morocco
• Pictures from Qatar (Flickr/cpmkutty)
• Arabian plants by Gary Brown
• Flora of Israel

How the web page was created

• A list of plants with their common names was written using online sources and books.
• Web pages were written by a program consisting of several scripts.
• Full names, synonyms, and classification of plants were found online from catalogueoflife.org and theplantlist.org using a script.
• Pictures of plants were selected from a database using a script.
• This web page was written using a script.

Acknowledgements

QNHG (Qatar Natural History Group) and associated people, for a possibility to participate in their field excursions and to learn about local nature.