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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Leptochloa

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Leptochloa aquatica Scribn. & Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa asthenes (Roem. & Schult.) C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa barbata (Desv.) Nicora	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa caerulescens Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa caudata (K.Schum.) N.W.Snow	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa chinensis (L.) Nees	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa chloridiformis (Hack.) Parodi	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa decipiens (R.Br.) Stapf ex Maiden	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa digitata (R.Br.) Domin	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa divaricatissima S.T.Blake	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa dubia (Kunth) Nees	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa eleusine (Nees) Cope & N.Snow	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa gigantea (Launert) Cope & N.Snow	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa ligulata Lazarides	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa longa Griseb.	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa malayana (C.E.Hubb.) Jansen ex Veldkamp	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa marquisensis (F.Br.) P.M.Peterson & Judz.	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa monticola Chase	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa mucronata (Michx.) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa nealleyi Vasey	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa neesii (Thwaites) Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa panicea (Retz.) Ohwi	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa rupestris C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa scabra Nees	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa simoniana N.Snow	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa southwoodii N.Snow & B.K.Simon	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa squarrosa Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa srilankensis N.Snow	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa tectoneticola (Backer) Jansen ex Veldkamp	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa uniflora Hochst. ex A.Rich.	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa virgata (L.) P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa viscida (Scribn.) Beal	Accepted		WCSP
Leptochloa xerophila P.M.Peterson & Judz.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 135 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Leptochloa. Of these 34 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 30 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Leptochloa. 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 135 species names for the genus Leptochloa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	34	25.2%
◕	Synonym	93	68.9%
◕	Unplaced	4	3.0%
◕	Unassessed	4	3.0%

All names

The status of the 165 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Leptochloa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	40	24.2%
◕	Synonym	117	70.9%
◕	Unplaced	4	2.4%
◕	Unassessed	4	2.4%

Of these names,

• 14 are recorded as invalid
• 3 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 135 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Leptochloa, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	34	84	0	0	118	87.4%
	Medium confidence	0	9	0	0	9	6.7%
	Low confidence	0	0	4	4	8	5.9%

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