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The genus Acorus is in the family Acoraceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Acorus

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Acorus calamus L.	Accepted		WCSP
Acorus gramineus Sol.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 38 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Acorus. Of these 2 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 15 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Acorus. 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 38 species names for the genus Acorus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	5.3%
◕	Synonym	33	86.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	7.9%

All names

The status of the 53 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Acorus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5	9.4%
◕	Synonym	45	84.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	5.7%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 38 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Acorus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	2	32	0	0	34	89.5%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	1	0	3	4	10.5%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Acorus, are as follows: