Ficinia

{{Short description|Genus of grass-like plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Ficinia nodosa.jpg

|image_caption = Ficinia nodosa

|taxon = Ficinia

|authority = Schrad.

|synonyms_ref =

|synonyms =

• Melancranis Vahl
• Hypolepis P.Beauv. ex Lestib.
• Hemichlaena Schrad.
• Acrolepis Schrad.
• Hypophialium Nees
• Pleurachne Schrad.
• Schoenidium Nees
• Sickmannia Nees
• Desmoschoenus Hook.f.
• Anthophyllum Steud.

}}

Ficinia is a genus of tufted or rhizomatous sedges in the family Cyperaceae. There are around 70 recognised species in Africa, four species (Ficinia ambigua, Ficinia anomala, Ficinia nodosa,{{Cite web|title=Ficinia nodosa|url=https://www.nzpcn.org.nz/flora/species/ficinia-nodosa/|access-date=2021-05-31|website=New Zealand Plant Conservation Network|language=en}} and Ficinia spiralis) that occur in New Zealand and a single species Ficinia nodosa that occurs in Australia.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=245019 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]{{cite web |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=gn&name=Ficinia |title=Genus Ficinia |accessdate=2008-06-14 |author=|work= PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney Australia}}{{cite web

| url = http://floraseries.landcareresearch.co.nz/pages/Taxon.aspx?id=_1e54420d-4141-42d3-ae9b-528a9b6eb0ae&fileName=Flora%202.xml#_63d90803-6b76-46e8-9ca9-fbe7bb00cd11

| title = Cyperaceae

| accessdate = 2008-06-14

| author = Landcare Research New Zealand Limited

| work = New Zealand Plant Names Database

| publisher = Landcare Research Allan Herbarium and New Zealand Plant Names Database

}}Govaerts, R. & Simpson, D.A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.Levyns, Margaret Rutherford Bryan. 1947. Journal of South African Botany 13: 68 The genus was described by German botanist Heinrich Adolph Schrader after another German botanist, Heinrich David August Ficinus.{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Val |url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132874317 |title=Common Ground: Who's who in New Zealand botanical names. Supplement Two: Who's who in New Zealand botanical names. Supplement Two |date=2023-01-01 |language=English}}