Habit: Syringodium filiforme grows as an aquatic, submerged perennial with rhizomes that roots at the nodes. The filiform leaves are arranged alternately, to 10 cm in length and sheathing at their base around the node with an acute apex.
The reduced incomplete, imperfect, zygomorphic flowers are solitary or in cymes. In staminate flowers there is a single bract that surrounds the 2 stamens. Carpellate flowers with a single bract and two unfused carpels. Fruit single seeded.
Habitat: Syringodium filiforme grows in marine systems in shallow water of bays and inlets.
Distribution: Syringodium filiforme occurs throughout the Lucayan Archipelago, the Caribbean region and the southern United States and Bermuda.
Medicinal/Cultural/Economic usage: Syringodium filiforme is not used medicinally in the Lucayan Archipelago.