"Sargassum fish The sargassum fish, anglerfish, or frog fish (""Histrio histrio"") is a frogfish of the family Antennariidae, the only species in its genus. It lives among ""Sargassum"" seaweed which floats in subtropical oceans. The scientific name comes from the Latin ""histrio"" meaning a stage player or actor, and refers to the fish's feeding behaviour. ""Histrio histrio"", a strange-looking fish, blends well with its surroundings in its seaweed habitat. It is laterally compressed and its length can reach . The colour of the body and the large oral cavity is very variable, but is usually mottled and spotted yellow, green,"
"to cover the entirety of the Sargasso Sea, making navigation impossible, it has since been found to occur only in drifts. ""Sargassum"" species ares also cultivated and cleaned for use as an herbal remedy. Many Chinese herbalists prescribe powdered ""Sargassum""—either the species ""S. pallidum"", or more rarely, hijiki, ""S. fusiforme""—in doses of 0.5 gram dissolved in warm water and drunk as a tea. It is called in traditional Chinese medicine, where it is used to resolve ""heat phlegm"". Species of this genus of algae may grow to a length of several metres. They are generally brown or dark green in"
"""Sargassum"", a brown seaweed, which washes up on the shore which aids in shore development by acting to hold sand in place, which can eventually build up the shoreline. Currents within the Gulf of Mexico are responsible for the transport of this seaweed mainly from the Sargasso Sea, but have also been responsible for the transport of trash to the shores of the park. This trash can be anything that is tossed overboard into the Gulf of Mexico as well as items that are either washed into the Gulf from land, or from the interior of the country by means"
"Sarcostemma acidum Sarcostemma acidum (a name established in 1845 by Joachim Otto Voigt), is a species of flowering plant in the Apocynaceae family and is typically found in the valleys and sub tropical mountains in the Himalayas. The plant is religiously linked to Hinduism and is believed to be a major ingredient of the Soma in Ancient India. Sarcostemma acidum is a perennial leafless, jointed shrub with green, cylindrical, fleshy glabrous with twining brinches having milky white latex and with its leaves reduced to scales. Its flowers are white or pale greenish white, are fragrant and grow in umbels on"
"word ""arnos"" meaning lamb, and ""glossum"" meaning tongue and is the ancient name for some species of Plantago. Arnoglossum Arnoglossum is a North American genus of plants in the sunflower family, described as a genus in 1817. Common name Indian plantain despite not being closely related to the common plantain (Plantago spp.) nor to the cooking plantain (Musa × paradisiaca) ""Arnoglossum"" is a member of the tribe Senecioneae which has been undergoing extensive revisions in recent years. Many of the species now in the genus were formerly classified in other genera such as ""Cacalia, Mesadenia,"" and ""Senecio"". The remaining species"
"will use the Sargassum as shelter and a resource for food until they reach a size at which they can survive elsewhere. This community is being affected by humans due to overfishing, trash and other types of pollution, and boat traffic, which could eventually lead to the demise of this diverse and unique habitat . Below is a list of organisms that are associated with the Sargassum in the Sargasso Sea. Organisms found in the pelagic Sargassum patches , , ""Sargassum"" is commonly found in the beach drift near ""Sargassum"" beds, where they are also known as gulfweed, a term"
"Ceratostigma Ceratostigma (;), or leadwort, plumbago, is a genus of eight species of flowering plants in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions of Africa and Asia. Common names are shared with the genus ""Plumbago"". They are flowering herbaceous plants, subshrubs, or small shrubs growing to tall. The leaves are spirally arranged, simple, 1–9 cm long, usually with a hairy margin. Some of the species are evergreen, others deciduous. The flowers are produced in a compact inflorescence, each flower with a five-lobed corolla; flower colour varies from pale to dark blue to red-purple. The fruit is a"
"Sparganium Sparganium (bur-reed) is a genus of flowering plants, described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1753. It is widespread in wet areas in temperate regions of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The plants are perennial marsh plants that can grow to 3.5 m (depending on the species), with epicene flowers. It was previously placed alone in the family Sparganiaceae. ""Sparganium"" is closely related to the Typhaceae and the APG III system (2009) includes ""Sparganium"" in that family. It has been determined from phylogenetic analysis to be the closest living relative of the genus Typha (cat-tail). ""Sparganium"", commonly known"
"Sparganium Sparganium (bur-reed) is a genus of flowering plants, described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1753. It is widespread in wet areas in temperate regions of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The plants are perennial marsh plants that can grow to 3.5 m (depending on the species), with epicene flowers. It was previously placed alone in the family Sparganiaceae. ""Sparganium"" is closely related to the Typhaceae and the APG III system (2009) includes ""Sparganium"" in that family. It has been determined from phylogenetic analysis to be the closest living relative of the genus Typha (cat-tail). ""Sparganium"", commonly known"
"parts of their development, but also as a permanent residence for endemic species that can only be found living on and within the Sargassum . These endemic organisms have specialized patterns and colorations that mimic the Sargassum and allow them to be impressively camouflaged in their environment. In total, these Sargassum mats are home to more than 11 phyla and over 100 different species . There is also a total of 81 fish species (36 families represented) that reside in the Sargassum or utilize it for parts of their life cycles . Other marine organisms, such as young sea turtles,"
"color and consist of a holdfast, a stipe, and a frond. Oogonia and antheridia occur in conceptacles embedded in receptacles on special branches. Some species have berrylike gas-filled bladders that help the fronds float to promote photosynthesis. Many have a rough, sticky texture that, along with a robust but flexible body, helps it withstand strong water currents. Large, pelagic mats of ""Sargassum"" in the Sargasso Sea act as one of the only habitats available for ecosystem development; this is because the Sargasso Sea lacks any land boundaries . The Sargassum patches act as a refuge for many species in different"
"Rapistrum rugosum Rapistrum rugosum is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common names annual bastardcabbage, common giant mustard or turnipweed. It is native to Eurasia and parts of Africa, and it is present throughout the world as an introduced species and a common weed. It is an invasive species in many areas. It is an annual herb producing an erect stem reaching up to about a meter tall. The leaves are variable in shape and size and the proximal blades are generally cut into lobes or divided into leaflets. The herbage is coated in"
"Arnoglossum Arnoglossum is a North American genus of plants in the sunflower family, described as a genus in 1817. Common name Indian plantain despite not being closely related to the common plantain (Plantago spp.) nor to the cooking plantain (Musa × paradisiaca) ""Arnoglossum"" is a member of the tribe Senecioneae which has been undergoing extensive revisions in recent years. Many of the species now in the genus were formerly classified in other genera such as ""Cacalia, Mesadenia,"" and ""Senecio"". The remaining species are all native to North America (Ontario and eastern United States). The name ""Arnoglossum"" is from the Greek"
"rough hairs. The inflorescence is a raceme of flowers with dark-veined yellow petals that are each under a centimeter long. The fruit is a knoblike spherical ribbed silique borne on a long pedicel with a widened area where it joins the fruit. Rapistrum rugosum Rapistrum rugosum is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common names annual bastardcabbage, common giant mustard or turnipweed. It is native to Eurasia and parts of Africa, and it is present throughout the world as an introduced species and a common weed. It is an invasive species in many areas."
"develop in the axils of leafy laminae. It is self-fertile. In summer 2015, large quantities of different species of ""Sargassum"" accumulated along the shores of many of the countries on the Caribbean Sea. Some of the affected islands and regions include the Caribbean coast of Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Barbados, and Tobago. Another large outbreak occurred in 2018. The algae wash ashore, pile up on beaches, and decay, often causing a foul odor, releasing fumes of sulphur compounds that rust metals, can turn taps black in shore houses, damage modern conveniences, and cause respiratory problems, particularly for asthmatics. A doctor"
"Cladium Cladium (fen-sedge, sawgrass or twig-sedge) is a genus of large sedges, with a nearly worldwide distribution in tropical and temperate regions. These are plants characterized by long, narrow (grass-like) leaves having sharp, often serrated (sawtooth-like) margins, and flowering stems 1–3 m tall bearing a much-branched inflorescence. Like many plants found in wet habitats, it has deeply buried rhizomes that can produce tall shoots with dense canopies. ""Cladium mariscus ""subsp."" jamaicense "", or saw-grass, is common in marshes and savannas throughout the tropical Americas. One typical and well-known area of extensive saw-grass growth is the Florida Everglades; sawgrass is the"
"Alyssum Alyssum is a genus of about 100–170 species of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, native to Europe, Asia, and northern Africa, with the highest species diversity in the Mediterranean region. The genus comprises annual and perennial herbaceous plants or (rarely) small shrubs, growing to 10–100 cm tall, with oblong-oval leaves. Alyssum flowers are characteristically small and grouped in terminal clusters; they are often yellow or white colored but can be pink or purple. The genera ""Lobularia"" and ""Aurinia"" are closely related to ""Alyssum"" and were formerly included in it. The widely cultivated species popularly known as ""sweet alyssum"""
"to other genera ""(Cynanchum, Funastrum, Leptadenia, Philibertia, Tetraphysa)"" Sarcostemma Sarcostemma is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1810. The name is derived from the Greek words σαρκὸς (""sarkos""), meaning ""flesh,"" and στέμμα (""stemma""), meaning ""garland"". Members of the genus are known generally as climbing milkweeds or caustic bushes. They are found across Africa and tropical Asia, in Australia, and in parts of North America. These plants are perennial flowering shrubs with trailing vines or lianas. They are often adapted to heat and/or desert conditions. Some have few or no leaves"
"Sorghum Sorghum is a genus of flowering plants in the grass family Poaceae. Seventeen of the 25 species are native to Australia, with the range of some extending to Africa, Asia, Mesoamerica, and certain islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species is grown for grain, while many others are used as fodder plants, either cultivated in warm climates worldwide or naturalized, in pasture lands. ""Sorghum"" is in the subfamily Panicoideae and the tribe Andropogoneae (the tribe of big bluestem and sugarcane). One species, ""Sorghum bicolor"", native to Africa with many cultivated forms now, is an important crop worldwide,"
"at depths down to about . ""Portunus sayi"" is a swimming crab that lives among the tangled masses of ""Sargassum"", a type of brown seaweed that floats in the Sargasso Sea. It is part of a community inhabiting these floating masses which includes fish, nudibranchs, crustaceans, hydroids, bryozoans and polychaete worms. Its colouring provides camouflage among the fronds of seaweed through which it hunts or lies in wait to ambush small items of prey. It has been shown that the crab chooses ""Sargassum"" spp. over similar seaweeds such as ""Thalassia testudinum"" by detecting chemical cues in the water. This crab"
"Sarcostemma Sarcostemma is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1810. The name is derived from the Greek words σαρκὸς (""sarkos""), meaning ""flesh,"" and στέμμα (""stemma""), meaning ""garland"". Members of the genus are known generally as climbing milkweeds or caustic bushes. They are found across Africa and tropical Asia, in Australia, and in parts of North America. These plants are perennial flowering shrubs with trailing vines or lianas. They are often adapted to heat and/or desert conditions. Some have few or no leaves and photosynthesize in the tissues of the green"
"Easter Island, Rota, Solomon Islands, and on Christmas Island. Everywhere, it is easy to hunt, it is invasive and displaces native vegetation. Similarly, the invasive species on many Pacific islands and the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean is Syngonium angustatum. It is an elongated, climbing or creeping herbaceous evergreen plant that reaches a height of 10-20 m with a sympodial growth type, lacking branches (branches off only after damage to the apical meristem), cylindrical to oval in cross-section. After the inflorescences have risen from the top of the stem, it stops growing, and from the side bud, placed two"
"Erysimum Erysimum (wallflower) is a genus of flowering plants in the cabbage family. It includes about 180 species of popular garden plants and many wild forms. The genus ""Cheiranthus"" is sometimes included here in whole or in part. ""Erysimum"" has since the early 21st century been ascribed to a monogeneric cruciferous tribe, Erysimeae, characterised by sessile, stellate and/or malpighiaceous trichomes, yellow to orange flowers and multiseeded siliques. Wallflowers are annuals, herbaceous perennials or sub-shrubs. The perennial species are short-lived and in cultivation treated as biennials. Most species have stems erect, somewhat winged, canescent with an indumentum of bifid hairs, usually"
"Sarcodes Sarcodes is the monotypic genus of a north-west American flowering springtime plant in the heath family (Ericaceae), containing the single species Sarcodes sanguinea, commonly called the snow plant or snow flower. It is a parasitic plant that derives sustenance and nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi that attach to roots of trees. Lacking chlorophyll, it is unable to photosynthesize. Ectomycorrhizal (EM) symbioses involve a mutualism between a plant root and a fungus; the plant provides fixed carbon to the fungus and in return, the fungus provides mineral nutrients, water and protection from pathogens to the plant. The snow plant takes advantage"
"Edward Forbes hypothesized a post-Miocene land mass extending westward from Europe into the Atlantic: The Sargasso Sea is home to seaweed of the genus ""Sargassum"", which floats en masse on the surface there. The sargassum is not a threat to shipping, and historic incidents of sailing ships being trapped there are due to the often calm winds of the horse latitudes. The Sargasso Sea also plays a major role in the migration of the European eel, the American eel, and the American conger eel. The larvae of both species hatch there and go to Europe or the East Coast of"
"cyanide, hordenine, and nitrates which are lethal to grazing animals. When stressed by drought or heat, plants can also contain toxic levels of cyanide and nitrates at later stages in growth. Another ""Sorghum"" species, Johnson grass (""S. halapense""), is classified as an invasive species in the US by the Department of Agriculture. Many species once considered part of ""Sorghum"", but now considered better suited to other genera include: ""Andropogon, Arthraxon, Bothriochloa, Chrysopogon, Cymbopogon, Danthoniopsis, Dichanthium, Diectomis, Diheteropogon, Exotheca, Hyparrhenia, Hyperthelia, Monocymbium, Parahyparrhenia, Pentameris, Pseudosorghum, Schizachyrium, ""and"" Sorghastrum"". Sorghum Sorghum is a genus of flowering plants in the grass family Poaceae."
"Arnoglossum plantagineum Arnoglossum plantagineum also known as groovestem Indian plantain or Prairie Indian Plantain, is a North American species of ""Arnoglossum"" in the sunflower family. It is native to the Central United States (Great Lakes, Mississippi Valley, southeastern Great Plains, from Texas east to Alabama and north to Minnesota and Michigan), with additional populations in the Canadian Province of Ontario. ""Arnoglossum plantagineum"" is a large herb up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall, spreading by means of underground rhizomes. Flower heads are white or green. The plant grows in pastures, wet meadows, and bogs. The Latin specific epithet ""plantagineum"" refers"
"Sorangium cellulosum Sorangium cellulosum is a soil-dwelling Gram-negative bacterium of the group myxobacteria. It is motile and shows gliding motility. Under stressful conditions this motility, as in other myxobacteria, the cells congregate to form fruiting bodies and differentiate into myxospores. These congregating cells make isolation of pure culture and colony counts on agar medium difficult as the bacterium spread and colonies merge. It has an unusually-large genome of 13,033,779 base pairs, making it the largest bacterial genome sequenced to date by roughly 4 Mb. S. cellulosum is found in soils, animal feces, and tree bark. The bacterium is a saprophyte"
"Artemisia gorgonum Artemisia gorgonum is a species of aster flowers that belong to the ""Asteraceae"" family. The species are endemic in Cape Verde. Its last form of the scientific name is gorgonum which rarely resembles and shaped like mermaids or the islands thought to be the Gorgads in Ancient times. Its local name is called ""lorna"" or ""losna"" (sagebrush), officially in English as the Cape Verdean sagebrush. The plant plays a role in traditional medicine. No significant variation has been observed. Old plants higher than 0.5–1 m are extremely rare today. Large plants up to 2 m are only known"
"Santalum Santalum is a genus of woody flowering plants, the best known and commercially valuable of which is the Indian sandalwood tree, ""S. album"". Members of the genus are trees or shrubs. Most are root parasites which photosynthesize their own food, but tap the roots of other species for water and inorganic nutrients. Several species, most notably ""S. album"", produce highly aromatic wood, used for scents and perfumes and for herbal medicine. About 25 known species range across the Indomalaya, Australasia, and Oceania ecozones, from India through Malesia to the Pacific Islands, as far as Hawaii and the Juan Fernández"
"Sarcobatus Sarcobatus is a North American genus of two species of flowering plants, formerly considered to be a single species. Common names for ""S. vermiculatus"" include greasewood, seepwood, and saltbush. Traditionally, ""Sarcobatus"" has been treated in the family Chenopodiaceae, but the APG III system of 2009 recognizes it as the sole genus in the family Sarcobataceae. The ""Sarcobatus"" plants are deciduous shrubs growing to 0.5–3 m tall with spiny branches and succulent leaves, 10–40 mm long and 1–2 mm broad. The leaves are green, in contrast to the grey-green color of most of the other shrubs within its range. The"
"to their homes in carts drawn by rams, and a fermented liquor was prepared by mixing its juice, strained through a sieve of goat's hair, with barley and ghee. This wine was drunk at all their religions festivals, and was used by the rishi as an intoxicant. The Rig Veda, ix. says, the purifying Soma, like the sea rolling its waves, has poured forth songs, hymns and thoughts. Sarcostemma acidum Sarcostemma acidum (a name established in 1845 by Joachim Otto Voigt), is a species of flowering plant in the Apocynaceae family and is typically found in the valleys and sub"
"Rapistrum Rapistrum, the bastardcabbages, is a genus belonging to the Brassicaceae family with a distinctive cross like arrangement of its petals. Species of ""Rapistrum"" are annual to perennials (Lifespan from 1 to 2 or more years). The yellow petals are accompanied by sepals that stand vertically at near right angles (erecto-patent). Leaf shape and arrangement varies from rough toothed (dentate) to a configuration of opposingly lobed pairs along the plant stalk, pinnately lobed. The ""Rapistrum"" genus has a characteristic fruit comprising two segments: a) The distal (upper division) The part of the fruit farthest away from the point of attachment."