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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cymbopogon

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cymbopogon ambiguus (Hack.) A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon annamensis (A.Camus) A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon auritus B.S. Sun	Accepted		TRO
Cymbopogon bhutanicus Noltie	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon bombycinus (R.Br.) Domin	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon caesius (Hook. & Arn.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon calcicola C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon calciphilus Bor	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon cambogiensis (Balansa) E.G.Camus & A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon clandestinus (Steud.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon coloratus (Hook.f.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon commutatus (Steud.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon densiflorus (Steud.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon dependens B.K.Simon	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon dieterlenii Stapf ex Schweick.	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon distans (Nees ex Steud.) W.Watson	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon exsertus (Hack.) A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon fibrosus B.S. Sun	Accepted		TRO
Cymbopogon flexuosus (Nees ex Steud.) W.Watson	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon gidarba (Buch.-Ham. ex Steud.) A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon giganteus Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon globosus Henrard	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon goeringii (Steud.) A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon gratus Domin	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon iwarancusa (Jones) Schult.	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon jwarancusa (Jones) Schult.	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon khasianus (Hack.) Stapf ex Bor	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon mandalaiaensis Soenarko	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon marginatus (Steud.) Stapf ex Burtt-Davy	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon martini (Roxb.) W.Watson	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon mekongensis A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon microstachys (Hook.f.) Soenarko	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon microthecus (Hook.f.) A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon minutiflorus S.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon nardus (L.) Rendle	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon nervatus (Hochst.) Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon nervosus B.S. Sun	Accepted		TRO
Cymbopogon obtectus S.T.Blake	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon osmastonii R.Parker	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon pendulus (Nees ex Steud.) W.Watson	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon polyneuros (Steud.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon pospischilii (K.Schum.) C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon procerus (R.Br.) Domin	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon pruinosus (Nees ex Steud.) Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon queenslandicus S.T.Blake	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon rectus (Steud.) A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon refractus (R.Br.) A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon schoenanthus (L.) Spreng.	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon tortilis (J.Presl) A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon traninhensis (A.Camus) Soenarko	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon tungmaiensis L.Liou	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon winterianus Jowitt ex Bor	Accepted		WCSP
Cymbopogon xichangensis R.Zhang & B.S.Sun	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 185 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cymbopogon. Of these 54 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 49 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cymbopogon. 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 185 species names for the genus Cymbopogon recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	54	29.2%
◕	Synonym	118	63.8%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.5%
◕	Unassessed	12	6.5%

All names

The status of the 234 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cymbopogon recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	56	23.9%
◕	Synonym	165	70.5%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.4%
◕	Unassessed	12	5.1%

Of these names,

• 6 are recorded as invalid
• 5 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 185 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cymbopogon, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	49	102	0	0	151	81.6%
	Medium confidence	3	15	0	0	18	9.7%
	Low confidence	2	1	1	12	16	8.6%

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