⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pentameris

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Pentameris dregeana Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentameris glacialis N.P.Barker	Accepted		WCSP
Pentameris hirtiglumis N.P.Barker	Accepted		WCSP
Pentameris longiglumis (Nees) Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Pentameris macrocalycina (Steud.) Schweick.	Accepted		WCSP
Pentameris obtusifolia (Hochst.) Schweick.	Accepted		WCSP
Pentameris oreophila N.P.Barker	Accepted		WCSP
Pentameris swartbergensis N.P.Barker	Accepted		WCSP
Pentameris thuarii P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP
Pentameris uniflora N.P.Barker	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 65 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pentameris. Of these 10 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pentameris. 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 65 species names for the genus Pentameris recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	10	15.4%
◕	Synonym	54	83.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.5%

All names

The status of the 67 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pentameris recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	10	14.9%
◕	Synonym	56	83.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.5%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 65 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pentameris, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	10	50	0	0	60	92.3%
	Medium confidence	0	4	0	0	4	6.2%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	1	1	1.5%

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