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The genus Najas is in the family Hydrocharitaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Najas

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Najas affinis Rendle	Accepted		WCSP
Najas alagensis (Pollini) Pollini	Accepted		TRO
Najas ancistrocarpa A.Braun ex Magnus	Accepted		WCSP
Najas arguta Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Najas australis Bory ex Rendle	Accepted		WCSP
Najas baldwinii Horn	Accepted		WCSP
Najas brevistyla Rendle	Accepted		WCSP
Najas browniana Rendle	Accepted		WCSP
Najas chinensis N.Z.Wang	Accepted		WCSP
Najas conferta (A.Braun) A.Braun	Accepted		WCSP
Najas faveolata A. Br. ex Magnus	Accepted		TRO
Najas filifolia R.R.Haynes	Accepted		WCSP
Najas flexilis (Willd.) Rostk. & W.L.E.Schmidt	Accepted		WCSP
Najas gracillima (A.Braun ex Engelm.) Magnus	Accepted		WCSP
Najas graminea Delile	Accepted		WCSP
Najas grossareolata L.Triest	Accepted		WCSP
Najas guadalupensis (Spreng.) Magnus	Accepted		WCSP
Najas hagerupii Horn	Accepted		WCSP
Najas halophila L.Triest	Accepted		WCSP
Najas heteromorpha Griff. ex Voigt	Accepted		WCSP
Najas horrida A.Braun ex Magnus	Accepted		WCSP
Najas indica (Willd.) Cham.	Accepted		WCSP
Najas japonica Nakai	Accepted		WCSP
Najas kurziana Rendle	Accepted		WCSP
Najas liberiensis Horn	Accepted		WCSP
Najas madagascariensis Rendle	Accepted		WCSP
Najas malesiana W.J.de Wilde	Accepted		WCSP
Najas marina L.	Accepted		WCSP
Najas minor All.	Accepted		WCSP
Najas oguraensis Miki	Accepted		WCSP
Najas pectinata (Parl.) Magnus	Accepted		WCSP
Najas pseudogracillima L.Triest	Accepted		WCSP
Najas rigida Griff.	Accepted		WCSP
Najas schweinfurthii Magnus	Accepted		WCSP
Najas tenuicaulis Miki	Accepted		WCSP
Najas tenuifolia R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Najas tenuissima (A.Braun ex Magnus) Magnus	Accepted		WCSP
Najas testui Rendle	Accepted		WCSP
Najas welwitschii Rendle	Accepted		WCSP
Najas wrightiana A.Braun	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 106 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Najas. Of these 40 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 99 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Najas. 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 106 species names for the genus Najas recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	40	37.7%
◕	Synonym	64	60.4%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.9%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.9%

All names

The status of the 205 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Najas recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	56	27.3%
◕	Synonym	147	71.7%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.5%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.5%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 106 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Najas, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	38	59	0	0	97	91.5%
	Medium confidence	2	5	0	0	7	6.6%
	Low confidence	0	0	1	1	2	1.9%

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