Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Uniola pittieri
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Class
Liliopsida (= Monocotyledoneae)
Order
Cyperales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Uniola
Species
pittieri
Taxon category: Accepted
In Stewart (1911) as Ammophila arenaria, fide Wiggins & Porter (1971).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- Adsersen, H. (s.a.) Field notes, 1974 and 1977 collections Charles darwin Research Station, unpublished Manuscript.
- CONABIO (2009) Catálogo taxonómico de especies de México. Cap. nat. México 1.
- Jørgensen, P.M. León-Yánez, S. (eds.) (1999) Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 75. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, 1181 pp.
- Laegaard, S. Peterson, P.M. (2001) 214(2). Gramineae (part 2) Subfam. Chloridoideae. Fl. Ecuador 68: 1–131.
- Lawesson, J.E. (s.a.) Pers. obs. field notes, collections 1985-7.
- Stewart, A. (1911) A botanical survey of the Galápagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 4th Series, 1: 7-288.
- Swallen, J.R. (1955) Gramineae. In: P. C. Standley & J. A. Steyermark (eds.), Flora of Guatemala—Part II. Fieldiana, Bot. 24(2): i–ix, 1–390.
- Wiggins, I.L. Porter, D.M. (1971) Flora of the Galapagos Islands Standford University Press, Stanford.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Uniola pittieri", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=989. Accessed 1 November 2026.