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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Danthonia

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Danthonia alpina Vest	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia annableae P.M.Peterson & Rúgolo	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia araucana Phil.	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia boliviensis Renvoize	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia breviseta Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia cachemyriana Jaub. & Spach	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia californica Bol.	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia chaseana Conert	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia chiapasensis Davidse	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia chilensis É.Desv.	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia cirrata Hack. & Arechav.	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia compressa Austin	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia cumminsii Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia decumbens (L.) DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia domingensis Hack. & Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia holm-nielsenii Laegaard	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia intermedia Vasey	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia malacantha (Steud.) Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia melanathera (Hack.) Bernardello	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia montevidensis Hack. & Arechav.	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia parryi Scribn.	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia rhizomata Swallen	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia rugoloana Sulekic	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia secundiflora J.Presl	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia sericea Nutt.	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia spicata (L.) Roem. & Schult.	Accepted		WCSP
Danthonia unispicata (Thurb.) Munro ex Macoun	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 333 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Danthonia. Of these 27 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 108 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Danthonia. 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 333 species names for the genus Danthonia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	27	8.1%
◕	Synonym	256	76.9%
◕	Unplaced	7	2.1%
◕	Unassessed	43	12.9%

All names

The status of the 441 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Danthonia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	28	6.3%
◕	Synonym	361	81.9%
◕	Unplaced	7	1.6%
◕	Unassessed	45	10.2%

Of these names,

• 9 are recorded as invalid
• 24 are recorded as illegitimate
• 4 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 333 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Danthonia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	27	238	0	0	265	79.6%
	Medium confidence	0	15	0	0	15	4.5%
	Low confidence	0	3	7	43	53	15.9%

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