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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Dactyloctenium

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L.) Willd.	Accepted		WCSP
Dactyloctenium aristatum Link	Accepted		WCSP
Dactyloctenium australe Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Dactyloctenium buchananensis B.K.Simon	Accepted		WCSP
Dactyloctenium capitatum A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Dactyloctenium ctenoides (Steud.) Bosser	Accepted		WCSP
Dactyloctenium geminatum Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Dactyloctenium giganteum B.S.Fisher & Schweick.	Accepted		WCSP
Dactyloctenium hackelii J.Wagner & Vierh.	Accepted		WCSP
Dactyloctenium radulans (R.Br.) P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP
Dactyloctenium robecchii (Chiov.) Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP
Dactyloctenium scindicum Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 35 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Dactyloctenium. Of these 12 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 12 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Dactyloctenium. 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 35 species names for the genus Dactyloctenium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	12	34.3%
◕	Synonym	18	51.4%
◕	Unplaced	3	8.6%
◕	Unassessed	2	5.7%

All names

The status of the 47 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Dactyloctenium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	12	25.5%
◕	Synonym	30	63.8%
◕	Unplaced	3	6.4%
◕	Unassessed	2	4.3%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 35 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Dactyloctenium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	12	15	0	0	27	77.1%
	Medium confidence	0	3	0	0	3	8.6%
	Low confidence	0	0	3	2	5	14.3%

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