Uncinia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Poales
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Genus
- Carex
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Uncinia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Uncinia
Uncinia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cyperaceae, known as hook-sedges in Australia and as hook grasses or bastard grasses in New Zealand. The genus is characterised by the presence of a long hook formed by an extension of the rachilla, which is used to attach the fruit to passing animals (epizoochory), especially birds, and it is this feature which gives the genus its name, from the Latin uncinus, meaning a hook or barb.
...Uncinia in languages:
- English
- Carex sect. Uncinia
- English
- Carex sect uncinia
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Carex aspericaulis
- Carex astricta
- Carex auceps
- Carex aucklandica
- Carex austrocompacta
- Carex austroflaccida
- Carex austrosulcata
- Carex austrotenella
- Carex banksiana
- Carex brevicaulis
- Carex cheesemanniana
- Carex corynoidea
- Carex crispa
- Carex cyanea
- Carex dawsonii
- Carex debilior
- Carex delacosta
- Carex dikei
- Carex dolichophylla
- Carex drucei
- Carex ecuadorensis
- Carex edura
- Carex egmontiana
- Carex erebus
- Carex erinacea
- Carex erythrovaginata
- Carex fernandesiana
- Carex firmula
- Carex goetghebeurii
- Carex hamata
- Carex hamlinii
- Carex healyi
- Carex horizontalis
- Carex imbecilla
- Carex kingii
- Carex lechleriana
- Carex lectissima
- Carex longifructus
- Carex macloviformis
- Carex macrotrichoides
- Carex madida
- Carex megalepis
- Carex meridensis
- Carex minor
- Carex multifaria
- Carex negeri
- Carex obtusifolia
- Carex parvispica
- Carex penalpina
- Carex perplexa
- Carex phleoides
- Carex plurinervata
- Carex potens
- Carex punicea
- Carex purpurata
- Carex quinquin
- Carex salticola
- Carex scabrida
- Carex silvestris
- Carex strictissima
- Carex subsacculata
- Carex subtilis
- Carex subviridis
- Carex triangula
- Carex turbaria
- Carex umbricola
- Carex uncinata
- Carex wheeleri
- Carex zotovii









































































































































