Uniola

Sea Oats
Uniola paniculata
Sanibel Island, Florida, USA
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Eragrostideae
Genus: Uniola
L.[1]
Type species
Uniola paniculata
L.[2][3]
Synonyms[4][1]
  • Nevroctola Raf.
  • Trisiola Raf.
  • Triunila Raf., name not validly published because proposed as provisional name
  • Leptochloopsis H.O.Yates
  • Leptochloöpsis H.O.Yates, alternate spelling

Uniola is a genus of New World plants in the grass family.[5][6][7]

Species[4][8][9]
  1. Uniola condensata Hitchc. - Ecuador
  2. Uniola paniculata L. Sea Oats - coastal regions in southeastern USA (TX LA MS AL GA FL NC SC VA DE),[10] Mexico (Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Yucatán Peninsula); Nicaragua, Panamá, Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, Cuba, Hispaniola
  3. Uniola peruviana Lægaard & Sánchez Vega - Perú
  4. Uniola pittieri Hack. - Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador incl Galápagos
  5. Uniola virgata (Poir.) Griseb. - West Indies incl Bahamas
Formerly included[4][9]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Genus: Uniola L.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 1999-03-09. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
  2. lectotype designated by Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 120. 1929).
  3. Tropicos, Uniola L.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  5. Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 71 in Latin
  6. Dávila, P., Mejia-Saulés, M.T., Gómez-Sánchez, N., Valdés-Reyna, J., Ortíz, J.J., Morín, C., Castrejón, J. & Ocampo, A. (2006). Catálogo de las Gramíneas de México: 1-671. CONABIO, México D.F..
  7. Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
  8. "Uniola". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
  9. 9.0 9.1 "GRIN Species Records of Uniola". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2011-02-26.
  10. Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map

External links

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