{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox |name = Sea oats |image = Uniola paniculata (plume).jpg |image_caption = ''Uniola paniculata''<br>Sanibel Island, Florida, United States |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Uniola |authority = L.<ref name="GRIN">{{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}}</ref> |type_species = ''Uniola paniculata'' |type_species_authority = L.<ref>lectotype designated by Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot.: 120. 1929).</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40021651 Tropicos, ''Uniola'' L.]</ref> |synonyms_ref = <ref name="GRIN"/><ref name=f>[https://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=449260 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> |synonyms = * ''Leptochloopsis'' <small>H.O.Yates</small> * ''Leptochloöpsis'' <small>H.O.Yates, alternate spelling</small> * ''Nevroctola'' <small>Raf.</small> * ''Trisiola'' <small>Raf.</small> * ''Triunila'' <small>Raf., name not validly published because proposed as provisional name</small> }}

'''''Uniola''''' is a genus of New World plants in the grass family.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358090#page/83/mode/1up Linnaeus, Carl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 71] in Latin</ref><ref>Dávila, 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.</ref><ref>Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.</ref>

; Species<ref name=f/><ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS |id=41315 |taxon=''Uniola'' |accessdate=2011-02-26}}</ref><ref name="GRINSpecies">{{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}}</ref> * ''Uniola condensata'' <small>Hitchc.</small> - Ecuador * ''Uniola paniculata'' <small>L.</small> &ndash; sea oats - coastal regions in southeastern United States (TX LA MS AL GA FL NC SC VA DE),<ref>[https://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Uniola%20paniculata.png Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map]</ref> Mexico (Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Yucatán Peninsula); Nicaragua, Panama, Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, Cuba, Hispaniola * ''Uniola peruviana'' <small>Lægaard & Sánchez Vega</small> - Peru * ''Uniola pittieri'' <small>Hack.</small> - Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador incl Galápagos * ''Uniola virgata'' <small>(Poir.) Griseb.</small> - West Indies incl. Bahamas

; Formerly included<ref name=f/><ref name="GRINSpecies"/> {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| * Centotheca lappacea - ''Uniola lappacea'' * ''Chasmanthium latifolium'' <small>(Michx.) H.O.Yates</small> (as ''U. latifolia'' <small>Michx.</small>) * ''Chasmanthium laxum'' as ''Uniola laxa, Uniola longifolia'' * ''Chasmanthium sessiliflorum'' <small>(Poir.) H.O.Yates</small> (as ''U. sessiliflora'' <small>Poir.</small>) * ''Desmostachya bipinnata'' <small>(L.) Stapf</small> (as ''U. bipinnata'' <small>L.</small>) * ''Distichlis palmeri'' <small>(Vasey) Fassett ex I.M.Johnst.</small> (as ''U. palmeri'' <small>Vasey</small>) * ''Distichlis spicata'' var. ''spicata'' (as ''U. spicata'' <small>L.</small>) * ''Distichlis spicata'' var. ''stricta'' <small>(Torr.) Scribn.</small> (as ''U. stricta'' <small>Torr.</small>) * ''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'' }}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{Commons category-inline|Uniola|''Uniola''}} * {{Wikispecies-inline|Uniola|''Uniola''}}

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Category:Uniola Category:Poaceae genera Category:Grasses of North America Category:Grasses of South America Category:Botanical taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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