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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Alopecurus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Alopecurus aequalis Sobol.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus albovii Tzvelev	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus alpestris Czerep.	Accepted		TRO
Alopecurus alpinus Vill.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus anatolicus Dogan	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus apiatus Ovcz.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus arundinaceus Poir.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus aucheri Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus baptarrhenius S.M.Phillips	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus bonariensis Parodi & Thell.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus borii Tzvelev	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus bornmuelleri Domin	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus brachystachyus M.Bieb.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus × brachystylus Peterm.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus bulbosus Gouan	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus carolinianus Walter	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus creticus Trin.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus dasyanthus Trautv.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus davisii Bor	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus geniculatus L.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus gerardii (All.) Vill.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus glacialis K.Koch	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus × haussknechtianus Asch. & Graebn.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus heleochloides Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus himalaicus Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus hitchcockii Parodi	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus japonicus Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus laguroides Balansa	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus lanatus Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus longiaristatus Maxim.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus magellanicus Lam.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus × marssonii Hausskn.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus mucronatus Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus myosuroides Huds.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus nepalensis Trin. ex Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus × plettkei Mattf.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus ponticus K.Koch	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus pratensis L.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus rendlei Eig	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus saccatus Vasey	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus setarioides Gren.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus textilis Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus turczaninovii O.D.Nikif.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus × turicensis Brügger	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus utriculatus Sol.	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus vaginatus (Willd.) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Alopecurus × winklerianus Asch. & Graebn.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 228 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Alopecurus. Of these 47 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 171 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Alopecurus. 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 228 species names for the genus Alopecurus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	47	20.6%
◕	Synonym	160	70.2%
◕	Unplaced	6	2.6%
◕	Unassessed	15	6.6%

All names

The status of the 399 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Alopecurus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	53	13.3%
◕	Synonym	323	81.0%
◕	Unplaced	6	1.5%
◕	Unassessed	17	4.3%

Of these names,

• 32 are recorded as invalid
• 12 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 228 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Alopecurus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	45	146	0	0	191	83.8%
	Medium confidence	1	13	0	0	14	6.1%
	Low confidence	1	1	6	15	23	10.1%

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