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The genus Saccharum is in the family Poaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Saccharum

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Saccharum alopecuroides (L.) Nutt.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum angustifolium (Nees) Trin.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum arundinaceum Retz.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum asperum (Nees) Steud.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum baka Buch.-Ham. ex Arn.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum beccarii (Stapf) Cope	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum bengalense Retz.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum bracteatum Larrañaga	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum brevibarbe (Michx.) Pers.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum caninum Reinw. ex Blume	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum coarctatum (Fernald) R.D.Webster	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum contortum (Elliott) Nutt.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum contractum Poit. ex Ledeb.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum deciduum Larrañaga	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum exaltatum Roxb.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum fallax Balansa	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum fatuum Beechey ex Steud.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum filifolium Steud.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum formosanum (Stapf) Ohwi	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum giganteum (Walter) Pers.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum griffithii Munro ex Aitch.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum griffithii Munro ex Boiss.	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Saccharum hildebrandtii (Hack.) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum kajkaiense (Melderis) Melderis	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum kanashiroi (Ohwi) Ohwi	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum longisetosum (Andersson) V.Naray. ex Bor	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum macrantherum (Pilg.) S. Ahmad & R.R. Stewart	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Saccharum maddenii Brunsfeld	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Saccharum maximum (Brongn.) Trin.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum modhuja Buch.-Ham. ex Arn.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum moonja Royle	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Saccharum muticum Larrañaga	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum narenga (Nees ex Steud.) Hack.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum obscurum Trin.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum officinarum L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum perrieri (A.Camus) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum pluviatile Osbeck	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Saccharum procerum Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum ravennae (L.) L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum robustum E.W.Brandes & Jeswiet ex Grassl	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum rufipilum Steud.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum seriferum Larrañaga	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum sikkimense (Hook.f.) V.Naray. ex Bor	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum sinense Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum spontaneum L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	2
Saccharum stewartii Rajesw., R.R.Rao & Arti Garg	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum strictum (Host) Spreng.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum viguieri (A.Camus) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum villosum Steud.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum wardii (Bor) Bor ex Cope	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Saccharum williamsii (Bor) Bor ex Cope	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 234 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Saccharum. Of these 36 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 90 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Saccharum. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 234 species names for the genus Saccharum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	36	15.4%
◕	Synonym	182	77.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	16	6.8%

All names

The status of the 324 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Saccharum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	38	11.7%
◕	Synonym	270	83.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	16	4.9%

Of the species names,

• 12 are recorded as invalid
• 8 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 234 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Saccharum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	35	172	0	0	207	88.5%
	Medium confidence	1	10	0	0	11	4.7%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	16	16	6.8%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Saccharum is as follows: