The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Cyperaceae

The family Cyperaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Cyperaceae

A list of all accepted names in Cyperaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Cyperaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 113 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 18,977 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Cyperaceae. Of these 5,732 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 8,375 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Cyperaceae. 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 18,977 species names for the family Cyperaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 5,732 30.2%
◕ Synonym 12,558 66.2%
◕ Unplaced 406 2.1%
◕ Unassessed 281 1.5%

All names

The status of the 27,352 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Cyperaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 6,547 23.9%
◕ Synonym 20,097 73.5%
◕ Unplaced 407 1.5%
◕ Unassessed 301 1.1%

Of these names,

A further 10 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 18,977 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Cyperaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 5,655 11,793 0 0 17,448 91.9%
Medium confidence 66 613 0 0 679 3.6%
Low confidence 11 152 406 281 850 4.5%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
IOPI 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.0%
Tropicos 66 627 0 240 0 933 4.9%
WCSP 5,666 11,929 406 34 10 18,045 95.1%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 7 0 7 0.0%