Poaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

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

Statistics

Species of Poaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 777 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 48,947 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Poaceae. Of these 11,461 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 20,217 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Poaceae. 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 48,947 species names for the family Poaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11,461	23.4%
◕	Synonym	34,254	70.0%
◕	Unplaced	1,211	2.5%
◕	Unassessed	2,021	4.1%

All names

The status of the 69,164 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Poaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11,966	17.3%
◕	Synonym	53,647	77.6%
◕	Unplaced	1,216	1.8%
◕	Unassessed	2,335	3.4%

Of these names,

3,165 are recorded as invalid
2,671 are recorded as illegitimate
240 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 48,947 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Poaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	11,088	30,512	0	0	41,600	85.0%
Medium confidence	240	3,033	0	0	3,273	6.7%
Low confidence	133	709	1,211	2,021	4,074	8.3%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
IOPI	0	1	0	0	1	0.0%
Tropicos	254	3,185	0	766	4,205	8.6%
WCSP	11,207	31,068	1,211	1,255	44,741	91.4%