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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Bouteloua

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Bouteloua alamosana Vasey ex Rose	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua americana (L.) Scribn.	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua annua Swallen	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua aristidoides (Kunth) Griseb.	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua chondrosioides (Kunth) Benth. ex S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr.	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua distans Swallen	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua disticha (Kunth) Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua eludens Griffiths	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua gracillis (Kunth) Griffiths	Accepted		TRO
Bouteloua johnstonii Swallen	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua juncea (P.Beauv.) Hitchc.	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua juncifolia Lag.	Accepted		TRO
Bouteloua karwinskii (E. Fourn.) Griffiths	Accepted		TRO
Bouteloua longiseta Gould	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua media (E.Fourn.) Gould & Kapadia	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua megapotamica (Spreng) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua pedicellata Swallen	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua purpurea Gould & Kapadia	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua radicosa (E.Fourn.) Griffiths	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua ramosa Scribn. ex Vasey	Accepted		TRO
Bouteloua reflexa Swallen	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua repens (Kunth) Scribn. & Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua rigidiseta (Steud.) Hitchc.	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua triaena (Trin.) Scribn.	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua uniflora Vasey	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua vaneedenii Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua warnockii Gould & Kapadia	Accepted		WCSP
Bouteloua williamsii Swallen	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 135 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Bouteloua. Of these 29 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 44 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Bouteloua. 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 135 species names for the genus Bouteloua recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	29	21.5%
◕	Synonym	103	76.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	2.2%

All names

The status of the 179 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Bouteloua recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	30	16.8%
◕	Synonym	145	81.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	4	2.2%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 135 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Bouteloua, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	25	92	0	0	117	86.7%
	Medium confidence	4	11	0	0	15	11.1%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	3	3	2.2%

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