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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Sorghastrum

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Sorghastrum amazonicum Henrard	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Sorghastrum balansae (Hack.) Dávila	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghastrum brunneum Swallen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghastrum chasae Swallen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghastrum contractum (Hack.) M.Kuhlm. & Kuhn	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghastrum crassum Renvoize	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghastrum elliottii (C.Mohr) Nash	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghastrum fuscescens (Pilg.) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghastrum incompletum (J.Presl) Nash	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghastrum minarum (Nees) Hitchc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghastrum nudipes Nash	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghastrum pellitum (Hack.) Parodi	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghastrum pogonostachyum (Stapf) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghastrum pohlianum Dávila, L.I.Cabrera & R.Lira	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghastrum scaberrimum (Nees) Herter	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghastrum secundum (Elliott) Nash	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghastrum setosum (Griseb.) Hitchc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghastrum stipoides (Kunth) Nash	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghastrum tisserantii Clayton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sorghastrum viride Swallen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 109 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Sorghastrum. Of these 20 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 39 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Sorghastrum. 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 109 species names for the genus Sorghastrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	20	18.3%
◕	Synonym	88	80.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.9%

All names

The status of the 148 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Sorghastrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	20	13.5%
◕	Synonym	127	85.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.7%

Of the species names,

• 6 are recorded as invalid
• 11 are recorded as illegitimate
• 2 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 109 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Sorghastrum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	20	86	0	0	106	97.2%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	1.8%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	1	1	0.9%

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