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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Arundo

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Arundo donax L.	Accepted		WCSP
Arundo formosana Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Arundo plinii Turra	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 268 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Arundo. Of these 3 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 32 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Arundo. 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 268 species names for the genus Arundo recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3	1.1%
◕	Synonym	220	82.1%
◕	Unplaced	22	8.2%
◕	Unassessed	23	8.6%

All names

The status of the 300 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Arundo recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3	1.0%
◕	Synonym	251	83.7%
◕	Unplaced	22	7.3%
◕	Unassessed	24	8.0%

Of these names,

• 34 are recorded as invalid
• 35 are recorded as illegitimate
• 2 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 268 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Arundo, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	3	191	0	0	194	72.4%
	Medium confidence	0	18	0	0	18	6.7%
	Low confidence	0	11	22	23	56	20.9%

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