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The genus Uncinia is in the family Cyperaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Uncinia

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Uncinia affinis (Colenso ex C.B.Clarke) Hamlin	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia andina G.A.Wheeler	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia angustifolia Hamlin	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia araucana G.A.Wheeler	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia aspericaulis G.A.Wheeler	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia astonii Hamlin	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia aucklandica Hamlin	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia austroamericana G.A.Wheeler	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia banksii Boott	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia brevicaulis (Thouars) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia caespitosa Colenso ex Boott	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia chilensis G.A.Wheeler	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia clavata (Kük.) Hamlin	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia compacta R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia costata Kük.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia dawsonii Hamlin	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia debilior F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia dikei Nelmes	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia distans Colenso ex Boott	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia divaricata Boott	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia douglasii Boott	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia drucei Hamlin	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia ecuadorensis G.A.Wheeler & Goetgh.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia egmontiana Hamlin	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia elegans (Kük.) Hamlin	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia erinacea (Cav.) Pers.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia ferruginea Boott	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia filiformis Colenso ex Boott	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia flaccida S.T.Blake	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia fuscovaginata Kük.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia gracilenta Hamlin	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia hamata (Sw.) Urb.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia hookeri Boott	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia involuta Hamlin	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia koyamae Gómez-Laur.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia lacustris G.A.Wheeler	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia laxiflora Petrie	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia lechleriana Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia leptostachya Raoul	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia longifructus (Kük.) Petrie	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia macloviana Gaudich.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia macloviformis G.A.Wheeler	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia macrolepis Decne.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia macrophylla Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia multifaria Nees ex Boott	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia negeri Kük.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia nemoralis K.L.Wilson	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia obtusifolia Heenan	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia paludosa G.A.Wheeler & Goetgh.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia perplexa Heenan & de Lange	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia phleoides (Cav.) Pers.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia purpurata Petrie	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia rapaensis H.St.John	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia riparia R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia rubra Colenso ex Boott	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia × rubrovaginata Hamlin	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia scabra Colenso ex Boott	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia scabriuscula G.A.Wheeler	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia silvestris Hamlin	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia sinclairii Boott ex Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia strictissima (Kük.) Petrie	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia subsacculata G.A.Wheeler & Goetgh.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia sulcata K.L.Wilson	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia tenella R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia tenuifolia G.A.Wheeler & Goetgh.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia tenuis Poepp. ex Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia triquetra Kük.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia uncinata (L.f.) Kük.	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia viridis (C.B.Clarke) Edgar	Accepted		WCSP
Uncinia zotovii Hamlin	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 150 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Uncinia. Of these 70 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 61 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Uncinia. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 150 species names for the genus Uncinia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	70	46.7%
◕	Synonym	80	53.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 211 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Uncinia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	72	34.1%
◕	Synonym	139	65.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as invalid
• 5 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 150 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Uncinia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	70	78	0	0	148	98.7%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	1.3%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Uncinia, are as follows: