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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Ophiuros

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Ophiuros bombaiensis Bor	Accepted		WCSP
Ophiuros exaltatus (L.) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP
Ophiuros megaphyllus Stapf ex Haines	Accepted		WCSP
Ophiuros papillosus Hochst.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 31 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Ophiuros. Of these 4 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Ophiuros. 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 31 species names for the genus Ophiuros recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	4	12.9%
◕	Synonym	27	87.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 32 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Ophiuros recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	4	12.5%
◕	Synonym	28	87.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 31 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Ophiuros, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	4	26	0	0	30	96.8%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	3.2%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

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