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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Anthoxanthum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Anthoxanthum aethiopicum I.Hedberg	Accepted		WCSP
Anthoxanthum amarum Brot.	Accepted		WCSP
Anthoxanthum aristatum Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Anthoxanthum borii S.K.Jain & Pal	Accepted		WCSP
Anthoxanthum dregeanum (Trin.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Anthoxanthum ecklonii (Nees ex Trin.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Anthoxanthum gracile Biv.	Accepted		WCSP
Anthoxanthum hookeri (Griseb.) Rendle	Accepted		WCSP
Anthoxanthum horsfieldii (Benn.) Reeder	Accepted		WCSP
Anthoxanthum japonicum (Maxim.) Hack. ex Matsumura	Accepted		WCSP
Anthoxanthum madagascariense Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Anthoxanthum nivale K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Anthoxanthum odoratum L.	Accepted		WCSP
Anthoxanthum ovatum Lag.	Accepted		WCSP
Anthoxanthum pallidum (Hand.-Mazz.) Tzvelev	Accepted		WCSP
Anthoxanthum sikkimense (Maxim.) Ohwi	Accepted		WCSP
Anthoxanthum tongo (Trin.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 94 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Anthoxanthum. Of these 17 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 60 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Anthoxanthum. 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 94 species names for the genus Anthoxanthum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	17	18.1%
◕	Synonym	76	80.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.1%

All names

The status of the 154 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Anthoxanthum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	22	14.3%
◕	Synonym	128	83.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	4	2.6%

Of these names,

• 6 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 94 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Anthoxanthum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	17	72	0	0	89	94.7%
	Medium confidence	0	4	0	0	4	4.3%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	1	1	1.1%

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