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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Megastachya

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Megastachya madagascariensis (Lam.) Chase	Accepted		WCSP
Megastachya mucronata (Poir.) P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 67 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Megastachya. Of these 2 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Megastachya. 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 67 species names for the genus Megastachya recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	3.0%
◕	Synonym	65	97.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 68 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Megastachya recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	2.9%
◕	Synonym	66	97.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 67 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Megastachya, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	2	58	0	0	60	89.6%
	Medium confidence	0	7	0	0	7	10.4%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

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