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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Hierochloe

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Hierochloe alpina (Sw.) Roem. & Schult.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe australis (Schrad.) Roem. & Schult.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe brunonis Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe cuprea Zotov	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe davidsei R.W.Pohl	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe equiseta Zotov	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe flexuosa Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe fraseri Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe fusca Zotov	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe glabra Trin.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe gunckelii Parodi	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe helenae Prob.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe juncifolia (Hack.) Parodi	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe khasiana C.B.Clarke ex Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe laxa Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe mexicana (E.Fourn.) Hitchc.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe novae-zelandiae Gand.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe occidentalis Buckley	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe odorata (L.) P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe pauciflora R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe pluriflora Koidz.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe potaninii Tzvelev	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe pusilla Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe quebrada Connor & Renvoize	Accepted		TRO
Hierochloe rariflora Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe recurvata (Hack. ex Cheeseman) Zotov	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe redolens (Vahl) Roem. & Schult.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe repens (Host) P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe sachalinensis Vorosch.	Accepted		TRO
Hierochloe spicata Parodi	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe submutica F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe tibetica Bor	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe utriculata (Ruiz & Pav.) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe wendelboi G.Weim.	Accepted		WCSP
Hierochloe × zinserlingii Tzvelev	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 92 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Hierochloe. Of these 35 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 67 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Hierochloe. 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 92 species names for the genus Hierochloe recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	35	38.0%
◕	Synonym	55	59.8%
◕	Unplaced	2	2.2%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 159 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Hierochloe recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	35	22.0%
◕	Synonym	122	76.7%
◕	Unplaced	2	1.3%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 4 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 92 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Hierochloe, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	33	51	0	0	84	91.3%
	Medium confidence	2	4	0	0	6	6.5%
	Low confidence	0	0	2	0	2	2.2%

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