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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Brachypodium

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Brachypodium × ambrosii Sennen	Accepted		WCSP
Brachypodium × apollinaris Sennen	Accepted		WCSP
Brachypodium arbuscula (Gay ex St.-Yves) Gay ex St.-Yves	Accepted		TRO
Brachypodium arbusculum Knoche	Accepted		WCSP
Brachypodium bolusii Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Brachypodium × cugnacii A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachypodium × diazii Sennen	Accepted		WCSP
Brachypodium distachyon (L.) P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachypodium firmifolium H.Lindb.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachypodium flexum Nees	Accepted		WCSP
Brachypodium humbertianum A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachypodium kawakamii Hayata	Accepted		WCSP
Brachypodium kotschyi Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachypodium madagascariense A.Camus & H.Perrier	Accepted		WCSP
Brachypodium mexicanum (Roem. & Schult.) Link	Accepted		WCSP
Brachypodium pentastachyum (Tin.) Nyman	Accepted		TRO
Brachypodium perrieri A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Brachypodium phoenicoides (L.) Roem. & Schult.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachypodium pinnatum (L.) P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachypodium pringlei Scribn. ex Beal	Accepted		WCSP
Brachypodium retusum (Pers.) P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP
Brachypodium sylvaticum (Huds.) P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 180 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Brachypodium. Of these 22 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 149 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Brachypodium. 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 180 species names for the genus Brachypodium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	22	12.2%
◕	Synonym	133	73.9%
◕	Unplaced	9	5.0%
◕	Unassessed	16	8.9%

All names

The status of the 329 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Brachypodium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	25	7.6%
◕	Synonym	278	84.5%
◕	Unplaced	9	2.7%
◕	Unassessed	17	5.2%

Of these names,

• 17 are recorded as invalid
• 14 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 180 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Brachypodium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	20	123	0	0	143	79.4%
	Medium confidence	2	8	0	0	10	5.6%
	Low confidence	0	2	9	16	27	15.0%

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