diff --git a/packages/k8s-ui/src/components/resources/renderers/UDPRouteDispatch.test.tsx b/packages/k8s-ui/src/components/resources/renderers/UDPRouteDispatch.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..058f76fe4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/k8s-ui/src/components/resources/renderers/UDPRouteDispatch.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+import { renderToStaticMarkup } from "react-dom/server";
+import { expect, it } from "vitest";
+import {
+  ResourceRendererDispatch,
+  getResourceStatus,
+} from "../../shared/ResourceRendererDispatch";
+
+it("dispatches official UDPRoute references while leaving a colliding foreign kind generic", () => {
+  const props = {
+    resource: { kind: "udproutes", namespace: "team", name: "route" },
+    onCopy: () => {},
+    copied: null,
+  };
+  const data = {
+    kind: "UDPRoute",
+    metadata: { name: "route", namespace: "team" },
+    spec: {
+      parentRefs: [{ name: "gateway" }],
+      rules: [{ backendRefs: [{ name: "dns", port: 53 }] }],
+    },
+  };
+  const native = { ...data, apiVersion: "gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1alpha2" };
+  const foreign = {
+    ...data,
+    apiVersion: "other.example.io/v1",
+    kind: "PacketPolicy",
+  };
+  const html = renderToStaticMarkup(
+    <ResourceRendererDispatch {...props} data={native} />,
+  );
+  expect(html).toContain("Rules (1)");
+  expect(html).toContain("Parents");
+  expect(html).toContain("dns");
+  expect(html).not.toContain("Specification Details");
+  const other = renderToStaticMarkup(
+    <ResourceRendererDispatch {...props} data={foreign} />,
+  );
+  expect(other).toContain("Specification Details");
+  expect(other).not.toContain("Rules (1)");
+  expect(getResourceStatus("udproutes", native)).toMatchObject({
+    text: "Unknown",
+  });
+  const reported = {
+    ...native,
+    status: {
+      parents: [
+        {
+          parentRef: { name: "gateway" },
+          conditions: [
+            { type: "Accepted", status: "True" },
+            { type: "ResolvedRefs", status: "True" },
+          ],
+        },
+      ],
+    },
+  };
+  expect(getResourceStatus("udproutes", reported)).toMatchObject({
+    text: "Accepted",
+  });
+  expect(
+    getResourceStatus("udproutes", {
+      ...reported,
+      apiVersion: foreign.apiVersion,
+    }),
+  ).not.toMatchObject({ text: "Accepted" });
+});
diff --git a/packages/k8s-ui/src/components/resources/resource-utils.ts b/packages/k8s-ui/src/components/resources/resource-utils.ts
index 594265a10e..a604b161ee 100644
--- a/packages/k8s-ui/src/components/resources/resource-utils.ts
+++ b/packages/k8s-ui/src/components/resources/resource-utils.ts
@@ -2387,7 +2387,7 @@ export function getCellFilterValue(resource: any, column: string, kind: string):
       if (kindLower === 'hpas' || kindLower === 'horizontalpodautoscalers') return getHPAStatus(resource).text
       if (kindLower === 'gateways') return getGatewayStatus(resource).text
       if (kindLower === 'gatewayclasses') return getGatewayClassStatus(resource).text
-      if (['httproutes', 'grpcroutes', 'tcproutes', 'tlsroutes', 'udproutes'].includes(kindLower)) return getRouteStatus(resource).text
+      if (['httproutes', 'grpcroutes', 'tcproutes', 'tlsroutes'].includes(kindLower) || (kindLower === 'udproutes' && resource.apiVersion?.startsWith('gateway.networking.k8s.io/'))) return getRouteStatus(resource).text
       if (kindLower === 'sealedsecrets') return getSealedSecretStatus(resource).text
       if (kindLower === 'poddisruptionbudgets') return getPDBStatus(resource).text
       if (kindLower === 'applications') return getArgoApplicationStatus(resource).text
diff --git a/packages/k8s-ui/src/components/shared/ResourceRendererDispatch.tsx b/packages/k8s-ui/src/components/shared/ResourceRendererDispatch.tsx
index 71d34ad87d..0b9c97b041 100644
--- a/packages/k8s-ui/src/components/shared/ResourceRendererDispatch.tsx
+++ b/packages/k8s-ui/src/components/shared/ResourceRendererDispatch.tsx
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ const KNOWN_KINDS = new Set([
   'rollouts', 'analysisruns', 'analysistemplates', 'clusteranalysistemplates', 'experiments', 'certificates', 'workflows', 'persistentvolumes',
   'storageclasses', 'certificaterequests', 'clusterissuers', 'issuers',
   'orders', 'challenges',
-  'gateways', 'gatewayclasses', 'httproutes', 'grpcroutes', 'tcproutes', 'tlsroutes', 'udproutes', 'sealedsecrets', 'workflowtemplates', 'clusterworkflowtemplates',
+  'gateways', 'gatewayclasses', 'httproutes', 'grpcroutes', 'tcproutes', 'tlsroutes', 'sealedsecrets', 'workflowtemplates', 'clusterworkflowtemplates',
   'networkpolicies', 'networkpolicy',
   'globalnetworkpolicies', 'globalnetworkpolicy',
   'stagednetworkpolicies', 'stagednetworkpolicy',
@@ -751,7 +751,10 @@ export function ResourceRendererDispatch({
     && !!data?.apiVersion
     && !data.apiVersion.startsWith('batch/')
 
-  const isKnownKind = KNOWN_KINDS.has(kind) || isCrossplaneMR || isCrossplaneClaim || isCrossplaneXR
+  // Another CRD can register the udproutes plural; it keeps the generic drawer.
+  const isUDPRoute = kind === 'udproutes' && isApiGroup(data?.apiVersion, 'gateway.networking.k8s.io')
+
+  const isKnownKind = KNOWN_KINDS.has(kind) || isUDPRoute || isCrossplaneMR || isCrossplaneClaim || isCrossplaneXR
 
   const JobComp = rendererOverrides?.JobRenderer ?? JobRenderer
   const JobSetComp = rendererOverrides?.JobSetRenderer ?? JobSetRenderer
@@ -860,7 +863,7 @@ export function ResourceRendererDispatch({
         {kind === 'grpcroutes' && <GRPCRouteRenderer data={data} onNavigate={onNavigate} />}
         {kind === 'tcproutes' && <SimpleRouteRenderer data={data} kind="TCPRoute" onNavigate={onNavigate} />}
         {kind === 'tlsroutes' && <SimpleRouteRenderer data={data} kind="TLSRoute" onNavigate={onNavigate} />}
-        {kind === 'udproutes' && <SimpleRouteRenderer data={data} kind="UDPRoute" onNavigate={onNavigate} />}
+        {isUDPRoute && <SimpleRouteRenderer data={data} kind="UDPRoute" onNavigate={onNavigate} />}
         {kind === 'sealedsecrets' && <SealedSecretRenderer data={data} onNavigate={onNavigate} />}
         {(kind === 'workflowtemplates' || kind === 'clusterworkflowtemplates') && <WorkflowTemplateRenderer data={data} />}
         {isCoreNetworkPolicy && <NetworkPolicyRenderer data={data} />}
@@ -1191,7 +1194,7 @@ export function getResourceStatus(kind: string, data: any): { text: string; colo
     return getGatewayStatus(data)
   }
   if (k === 'gatewayclasses') return getGatewayClassStatus(data)
-  if (k === 'httproutes' || k === 'grpcroutes' || k === 'tcproutes' || k === 'tlsroutes' || k === 'udproutes') return getRouteStatus(data)
+  if (k === 'httproutes' || k === 'grpcroutes' || k === 'tcproutes' || k === 'tlsroutes' || (k === 'udproutes' && isApiGroup(data?.apiVersion, 'gateway.networking.k8s.io'))) return getRouteStatus(data)
   if (k === 'sealedsecrets') return getSealedSecretStatus(data)
   if (k === 'poddisruptionbudgets') return getPDBStatus(data)
   if (k === 'gitrepositories') return getGitRepositoryStatus(data)