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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Ctenium

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Ctenium aromaticum (Walter) Alph.Wood	Accepted		WCSP
Ctenium bahiense Longhi-Wagner	Accepted		WCSP
Ctenium brachystachyum (Nees) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Ctenium brevispicatum J.G.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Ctenium canescens Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Ctenium chapadense (Trin.) Döll	Accepted		WCSP
Ctenium cirrhosum (Nees) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Ctenium concinnum Nees	Accepted		WCSP
Ctenium concissum Swallen	Accepted		WCSP
Ctenium elegans Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Ctenium floridanum (Hitchc.) Hitchc.	Accepted		WCSP
Ctenium ledermannii Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP
Ctenium longiglume Kupicha ex Longhi-Wagner & Cope	Accepted		WCSP
Ctenium newtonii Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Ctenium planifolium (J.Presl) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Ctenium plumosum (Hitchc.) Swallen	Accepted		WCSP
Ctenium polystachyum Balansa	Accepted		WCSP
Ctenium sesquiflorum Clayton	Accepted		WCSP
Ctenium somalense (Chiov.) Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP
Ctenium villosum Berhaut	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 39 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Ctenium. Of these 20 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 6 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Ctenium. 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 39 species names for the genus Ctenium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	20	51.3%
◕	Synonym	18	46.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	2.6%

All names

The status of the 45 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Ctenium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	20	44.4%
◕	Synonym	24	53.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	2.2%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 39 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Ctenium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	20	15	0	0	35	89.7%
	Medium confidence	0	3	0	0	3	7.7%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	1	1	2.6%

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