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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Echinolaena

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Echinolaena ecuadoriana Filg.	Accepted		WCSP
Echinolaena gracilis Swallen	Accepted		WCSP
Echinolaena inflexa (Poir.) Chase	Accepted		WCSP
Echinolaena madagascariensis Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Echinolaena minarum (Nees) Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP
Echinolaena oplismenoides (Munro ex Döll) Stieber	Accepted		WCSP
Echinolaena standleyi (Hitchc.) Stieber	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 17 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Echinolaena. Of these 7 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Echinolaena. 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 17 species names for the genus Echinolaena recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	7	41.2%
◕	Synonym	9	52.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	5.9%

All names

The status of the 18 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Echinolaena recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	7	38.9%
◕	Synonym	10	55.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	5.6%

Of these names,

• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 17 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Echinolaena, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	7	9	0	0	16	94.1%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	1	1	5.9%

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