Uniola

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{{Automatic taxobox

|name = Sea oats

|image = Uniola paniculata (plume).jpg

|image_caption = Uniola paniculata
Sanibel Island, Florida, United States

|display_parents = 3

|taxon = Uniola

|authority = L.{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?12562 |title=Genus: Uniola L. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=1999-03-09 |access-date=2011-02-26}}

|type_species = Uniola paniculata

|type_species_authority = L.lectotype designated by Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 120. 1929).[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40021651 Tropicos, Uniola L.]

|synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=449260 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

|synonyms =

• Leptochloopsis H.O.Yates
• Leptochloöpsis H.O.Yates, alternate spelling
• Nevroctola Raf.
• Trisiola Raf.
• Triunila Raf., name not validly published because proposed as provisional name

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Uniola is a genus of New World plants in the grass family.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358090#page/83/mode/1up Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 71] in LatinDávila, 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.Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.

; Species{{ITIS |id=41315 |taxon=Uniola |accessdate=2011-02-26}}{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?12562 |title=GRIN Species Records of Uniola |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |access-date=2011-02-26}}

• Uniola condensata Hitchc. - Ecuador
• Uniola paniculata L. – sea oats - coastal regions in southeastern United States (TX LA MS AL GA FL NC SC VA DE),[http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Uniola%20paniculata.png Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map] Mexico (Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Yucatán Peninsula); Nicaragua, Panama, Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, Cuba, Hispaniola
• Uniola peruviana Lægaard & Sánchez Vega - Peru
• Uniola pittieri Hack. - Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador incl Galápagos
• Uniola virgata (Poir.) Griseb. - West Indies incl. Bahamas

; Formerly included

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• Centotheca lappacea - Uniola lappacea
• Chasmanthium latifolium (Michx.) H.O.Yates (as U. latifolia Michx.)
• Chasmanthium laxum as Uniola laxa, Uniola longifolia
• Chasmanthium sessiliflorum (Poir.) H.O.Yates (as U. sessiliflora Poir.)
• Desmostachya bipinnata (L.) Stapf (as U. bipinnata L.)
• Distichlis palmeri (Vasey) Fassett ex I.M.Johnst. (as U. palmeri Vasey)
• Distichlis spicata var. spicata (as U. spicata L.)
• Distichlis spicata var. stricta (Torr.) Scribn. (as U. stricta Torr.)
• Distichlis distichophylla as Uniola distichophylla
• Eragrostis superba as Uniola jardinii
• Festuca amplissima as Uniola effusa, Uniola muelleri
• Halopyrum mucronatum as Uniola mucronata
• Tribolium uniolae as Uniola capensis

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