"water ribbons" meaning in English

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          "name": "Alismatales order plants",
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          "ref": "1956, The Emu, volume 57, page 343",
          "text": "The whole marsh was densely clothed with reeds (Juncus spp.), water-ribbons, (Triglochin procera) and blown grass (Agrostis avenacea), the bed was sticky clay, and the burrows of freshwater crayfish gave each step interesting possibilities.",
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          "ref": "2006, Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 241",
          "text": "We wade through the delicate water, the moon spilling on our colourless bodies. Brolgas ruffling their wings against water ribbons, making the muddy bath flinch in coiling waves."
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        "An aquatic plant, Triglochin procera, of southeastern Australia."
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