Abstract
Cell walls from rhizomes of Halophila ovalis (R. Br.) Hook.f., Halophila stipulacea (Forsk.) Aschers. and Halodule univervis (Forsk.) Aschers. were analysed. The non-cellulosic polysaccharides contained glucose as the most abundant sugar and arabinose as the next most abundant sugar in all cases. Only small amounts of pectin were found. Halodule uninervis differed from the two Halophila species in its large amount of cell wall material per gram fresh weight and in its high proportion of non-cellulosic polysaccharides. The lignin from all three plants contained non-conjugated phenols, with relatively few conjugated phenols.
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