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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Imperata

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Imperata brasiliensis Trin.	Accepted		WCSP
Imperata brevifolia Vasey	Accepted		WCSP
Imperata cheesemanii Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Imperata condensata Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Imperata conferta (J.Presl) Ohwi	Accepted		WCSP
Imperata contracta (Humb., Bonpl. & Kunth) Hitchc.	Accepted		WCSP
Imperata cylindrica (L.) Raeusch.	Accepted		WCSP
Imperata flavida S.M.Phillips & S.L.Chen	Accepted		WCSP
Imperata minutiflora Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Imperata parodii Acev.-Rodr.	Accepted		WCSP
Imperata tenuis Hack.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 50 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Imperata. Of these 11 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 28 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Imperata. 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 50 species names for the genus Imperata recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	22.0%
◕	Synonym	37	74.0%
◕	Unplaced	1	2.0%
◕	Unassessed	1	2.0%

All names

The status of the 78 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Imperata recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	14.1%
◕	Synonym	65	83.3%
◕	Unplaced	1	1.3%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.3%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 50 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Imperata, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	11	30	0	0	41	82.0%
	Medium confidence	0	7	0	0	7	14.0%
	Low confidence	0	0	1	1	2	4.0%

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