PARALLEL SOLUTIONS. “Seagrasses have been found to share morphological traits that distinguish them from terrestrial plants such as reduced stamen and corolla, and elongated pollen without exine walls. Except for the genus Enhalus with above-surface pollination, all of the 60 seagrass species exhibit true sub-aqueous pollination by means of filiforme pollen (hydrophily). This adaptation to a marine habitat is thus an example of morphological parallel evolution.”
http://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-11-8
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022