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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Miscanthus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Miscanthus changii Y.N.Lee	Accepted		WCSP
Miscanthus depauperatus Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Miscanthus ecklonii (Nees) Mabb.	Accepted		WCSP
Miscanthus floridulus (Labill.) Warb. ex K.Schum. & Lauterb.	Accepted		WCSP
Miscanthus fuscus (Roxb.) Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Miscanthus × giganteus J.M.Greef , Deuter ex Hodk., Renvoize	Accepted		WCSP
Miscanthus junceus (Stapf) Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP
Miscanthus lutarioriparius L. Liou ex Renvoize & S.L. Chen	Accepted		TRO
Miscanthus nepalensis (Trin.) Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Miscanthus nudipes (Griseb.) Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Miscanthus oligostachyus Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Miscanthus paniculatus (B.S. Sun) Renvoize & S.L. Chen	Accepted		TRO
Miscanthus sacchariflorus (Maxim.) Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Miscanthus sinensis Andersson	Accepted		WCSP
Miscanthus tinctorius (Steud.) Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Miscanthus violaceus (K.Schum.) Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 69 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Miscanthus. Of these 16 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 56 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Miscanthus. 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 69 species names for the genus Miscanthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	23.2%
◕	Synonym	46	66.7%
◕	Unplaced	2	2.9%
◕	Unassessed	5	7.2%

All names

The status of the 125 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Miscanthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	12.8%
◕	Synonym	101	80.8%
◕	Unplaced	2	1.6%
◕	Unassessed	6	4.8%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 69 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Miscanthus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	14	45	0	0	59	85.5%
	Medium confidence	1	1	0	0	2	2.9%
	Low confidence	1	0	2	5	8	11.6%

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