| Southern African eelgrass | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Zosteraceae |
| Genus: | Zostera |
| Species: | Z. capensis |
| Binomial name | |
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Zostera capensis Setch. |
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| Synonyms | |
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Nanozostera capensis (Setch.) Toml. & Posl. |
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Nanozostera capensis (Setch.) Toml. & Posl.
Zostera capensis is a species of eelgrass growing along the shores of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar, Angola and the Cape Provinces and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.