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The genus Elegia is in the family Restionaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Elegia

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Elegia acockii (Pillans) Moline & H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia aggregata (Mast.) Moline & H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia altigena Pillans	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia asperiflora (Nees) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia atratiflora Esterh.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia caespitosa Esterh.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia capensis (Burm.f.) Schelpe	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia coleura Nees ex Mast.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia cuspidata Mast.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia decipiens (Esterh.) Moline & H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia deusta (Rottb.) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia ebracteata (Kunth) Moline & H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia elephantina H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia equisetacea (Mast.) Mast.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia esterhuyseniae Pillans	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia extensa Pillans	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia fastigata Mast.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia fenestrata Pillans	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia filacea Mast.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia fistulosa Kunth	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia fucata Esterh.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia galpinii N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia grandis (Spreng. ex Nees) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia grandispicata H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia hookeriana (Mast.) Moline & H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia hutchinsonii Pillans	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia intermedia (Steud.) Pillans	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia juncea L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia macrocarpa (Kunth) Moline & H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia marlothii (Pillans) Moline & H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia microcarpa (Kunth) Moline & H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia mucronata (Nees) Rchb. ex Kunth	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia muirii Pillans	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia neesii Mast.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia nuda (Rottb.) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia persistens Mast.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia prominens Pillans	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia racemosa (Poir.) Pers.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia recta (Mast.) Moline & H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia rigida Mast.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia spathacea Mast.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia squamosa Mast.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia stipularis Mast.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia stokoei Pillans	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia tectorum (L.f.) Moline & H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia thyrsifera (Rottb.) Pers.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia thyrsoidea (Mast.) Pillans	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia vaginulata Mast.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Elegia verreauxii Mast.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 124 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Elegia. Of these 49 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 11 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Elegia. 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 124 species names for the genus Elegia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	49	39.5%
◕	Synonym	75	60.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 135 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Elegia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	49	36.3%
◕	Synonym	86	63.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of the species names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 8 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 124 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Elegia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	49	74	0	0	123	99.2%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	0.8%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

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