The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large; botanists have described some 5,500 known species in about 90 genera – the largest being the "true sedges", with over 2,000 species.
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.
Cyathochaeta equitans is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to Australia.
Cyperus astartodes is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to northern parts of Australia.
Cyperus centralis is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to arid areas of central Australia.
Cyperus crispulus is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to Australia and found in Western Australia, and the Northern Territory.
Cyperus hesperius is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to Australia.
Cyperus latzii is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to Australia, and found in the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
Cyperus orgadophilus is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to Australia, in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and Queensland.
Cyperus viscidulus is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that is native to north western Australia.
Cyperus vorsteri is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae native to KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.
Karen Louise Wilson is an Australian botanist.
Ptilothrix deusta is a sedge in the family Cyperaceae found in south eastern Australia. It is commonly seen in wet sandy soils in heathland, growing from 30 to 60 cm tall. This is one of the many plants first published by Robert Brown with the type known as "(J.) v.v." appearing in his Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen in 1810 as Carpha deusta. It was transferred to the genus, Ptilothrix, in 1994 by Karen Wilson. The genus name is derived from ancient Greek, meaning feather hair. The specific epithet deusta is derived from the Latin with a meaning of burnt.
Schoenus calcatus is a species of Cyperaceae endemic to Western Australia.
Anthelepis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Cyperaceae, and was first described in 2019 by the Australian botanists, Russell Barrett, Karen Wilson and Jeremy Bruhl.
Cyperus isabellinus is a species of sedge that is native to north eastern Australia, and which was first described in 1991 by Karen Wilson.
Cyperus secubans is a species of sedge that is native to parts of eastern Australia. This sedge was first described in 1991 by Karen Louise Wilson. The epithet, secubans, derives from secubare (Latin), and refers to the species' physical isolation from others in the section Pinnati.
Carex klaphakei, Klaphake's sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the family Cyperaceae, native to the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. It is known from only three locations, all hanging swamps of the Blue Mountains.
Machaerina johnsonii is a flowering plant in the sedge family. The species was first described in 1980 as Baumea johnsonii by Karen Wilson, who reassigned it in 2015 to the genus, Machaerina. The species epithet honours L.A.S. Johnson.
Machaerina planifolia is a flowering plant in the sedge family. The species was first described in 1878 as Cladium tetraquetrum var. planifolium by George Bentham. It was renamed several times, with its current name having been given in 2015 by Karen Wilson who reassigned to the genus, Machaerina.
