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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		WCSP
Aira cupaniana Guss.	Accepted		WCSP
Aira elegantissima Schur	Accepted		WCSP
Aira × hybrida Gaudich.	Accepted		WCSP
Aira praecox L.	Accepted		WCSP
Aira provincialis Jord.	Accepted		WCSP
Aira scoparia Adamovic	Accepted		WCSP
Aira tenorei Guss.	Accepted		WCSP
Aira uniaristata Cav.	Accepted		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,

• 48 are recorded as invalid
• 48 are recorded as illegitimate
• 7 are recorded as a spelling variant

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: