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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Mariscus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Mariscus cylindricus Britton ex C.B. Clarke	Accepted		TRO
Mariscus infuscatus (Kunth) T. Koyama	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 539 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Mariscus. Of these 2 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 86 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Mariscus. 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 539 species names for the genus Mariscus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	0.4%
◕	Synonym	528	98.0%
◕	Unplaced	7	1.3%
◕	Unassessed	2	0.4%

All names

The status of the 625 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Mariscus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	0.3%
◕	Synonym	612	97.9%
◕	Unplaced	7	1.1%
◕	Unassessed	4	0.6%

Of these names,

• 9 are recorded as invalid
• 25 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 539 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Mariscus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	512	0	0	512	95.0%
	Medium confidence	2	15	0	0	17	3.2%
	Low confidence	0	1	7	2	10	1.9%

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