Uncinia

Plant Characteristics
Habit		grass

Cultivation

Features:	✓	evergreen

Scientific Names
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Uncinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cyperaceae, known as hook-sedges in Australia ^[1] and as hook grasses or bastard grasses in New Zealand ^[2]. The genus is characterised by the presence of a long hook formed by an extension of the rachilla ^[3], which is used to attach the fruit to passing animals (epizoochory), especially birds ^[4], and it is this feature which gives the genus its name, from the Latin uncinus, meaning a hook or barb ^[5].

Cultivation

Propagation

Pests and diseases

Varieties

U. affinis (C. B. Clarke) Hamlin — New Zealand
U. andina G. A. Wheeler — Argentina
U. angustifolia Hamlin — New Zealand
U. araucana G. A. Wheeler — Chile
U. aspericaulis G. A. Wheeler — Juan Fernández Islands
U. astonii Hamlin — New Zealand
U. aucklandica Hamlin — New Zealand
U. austroamericana G. A. Wheeler — Tierra del Fuego
U. banksii Boott — New Zealand
U. bracteosa Phil. — Chile
U. brevicaulis Thouars — Hawaii, South America, Falkland Islands, Tristan da Cunha, Juan Fernández Islands
U. caespitosa Boott — New Zealand
U. chilensis G. A. Wheeler — Chile
U. clavata (Kük.) Hamlin — New Zealand
U. compacta R. Br. — Australia
U. costata Kük. — Juan Fernández Islands
U. dawsonii Hamlin — New Caledonia
U. debilior F. Muell. — Lord Howe Island
U. dikei Nelmes — Marion Island
U. distans Col. ex Boott — New Zealand
U. divaricata Boott — New Zealand
U. douglasii Boott — Juan Fernández Islands
U. drucei Hamlin — New Zealand
U. ecuadorensis G. A. Wheeler & Goetgh. — Ecuador
U. egmontiana Hamlin — New Zealand
U. elegans (Kük.) Hamlin — New Zealand, Tasmania
U. erinacea Pers. — South America
U. ferruginea Boott — New Zealand
U. filiformis Boott — New Zealand
U. flaccida S. T. Blake — Victoria (Australia)
U. fuscovaginata Kük. — New Zealand
U. gracilenta Hamlin — New Zealand
U. hamata (Sw.) Urb. — Neotropics
U. hookeri Boott — New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands, Macquarie Island
U. involuta Hamlin — New Zealand
U. kingii R.Br. ex Boott — Chile
U. koyamai Gómez-Laur. — Costa Rica
U. lacustris G. A. Wheeler — Ecuador
U. laxiflora Petrie — New Zealand

U. lechleriana Steud. — Magellan Region
U. leptostachya Raoul — New Zealand
U. loliacea Phil. — Chile
U. longifructus (Kük.) Petrie — New Zealand
U. macloviformis G. A. Wheeler — Juan Fernández Islands
U. macrophylla Steud. — Chile
U. macrotricha Franch. — Patagonia
U. meridensis Steyerm. — Venezuela
U. multifaria Nees ex Boott — Chile
U. multifolia Boeckeler — Colombia
U. negeri Kük. — Chile
U. nemoralis K. L. Wilson — Australia
U. nervosa Boott — New Zealand, Tasmania
U. obtusifolia Boott — New Zealand
U. ohwiana Koyama — New Guinea
U. paludosa G. A. Wheeler & Goetgh. — Ecuador
U. perplexa Boott — Surville Cliffs (New Zealand)
U. phleoides (Cav.) Pers. — Juan Fernández Islands, South America
U. purpurata Petrie — New Zealand
U. rapaensis H. St. John — Tubuai
U. rubra Boott — New Zealand
U. rupestris Raoul — New Zealand
U. scabra Boott — New Zealand
U. scabriuscula G. A. Wheeler — Argentina, Chile
U. sclerophylla Nelmes — New Guinea
U. silvestris Hamlin — New Zealand
U. sinclairii Boott — New Zealand
U. smithii Phil. — South Georgia, Falkland Islands
U. strictissima Petrie — New Zealand
U. subsacculata G. A. Wheeler & Goetgh. — Ecuador
U. subtrigona Nelmes — Borneo, New Guinea
U. sulcata K. L. Wilson — Australia
U. tenella R. Br. — Australia
U. tenuifolia G. A. Wheeler & Goetgh. — Ecuador
U. tenuis Poeppig ex Kunth — Juan Fernández Islands, South America
U. uncinata (Linn. f.) Kük. — New Zealand, Hawaii
U. viridis (C. B. Clarke) Edgar — New Zealand
U. zotovii Hamlin — New Zealand

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References

↑ http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Uncinia
↑ http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/wetlands/4
↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Starr2009
↑ https://ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/64022000/Publications/Bryson/Brysonetal08Chpt2.pdf
↑ http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/online-resources/flora/stddisplay.xsql?pnid=7334

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[NSW-1] ttp://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Uncinia

[2] ttp://www.teara.govt.nz/en/wetlands/4

[Starr2009-3] Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Starr2009

[Bryson-4] ttps://ars.usda.gov/SP2UserFiles/Place/64022000/Publications/Bryson/Brysonetal08Chpt2.pdf

[ANBG-5] ttp://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/online-resources/flora/stddisplay.xsql?pnid=7334

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