The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Aira

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Aira

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Aira caryophyllea L. Accepted H WCSP
Aira cupaniana Guss. Accepted H WCSP
Aira elegantissima Schur Accepted H WCSP
Aira × hybrida Gaudich. Accepted H WCSP
Aira praecox L. Accepted H WCSP
Aira provincialis Jord. Accepted H WCSP
Aira scoparia Adamovic Accepted H WCSP
Aira tenorei Guss. Accepted H WCSP
Aira uniaristata Cav. Accepted H WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 348 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Aira. Of these 9 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 130 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Aira. 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 348 species names for the genus Aira recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 9 2.6%
Synonym 309 88.8%
Unplaced 27 7.8%
Unassessed 3 0.9%

All names

The status of the 478 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Aira recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 10 2.1%
Synonym 435 91.0%
Unplaced 27 5.6%
Unassessed 6 1.3%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 348 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Aira, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 9 281 0 0 290 83.3%
Medium confidence 0 24 0 0 24 6.9%
Low confidence 0 4 27 3 34 9.8%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 24 0 0 0 24 6.9%
WCSP 9 285 27 3 0 324 93.1%