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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pentaschistis

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Pentaschistis acinosa Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis airoides (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis alticola H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis ampla (Nees) McClean	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis andringitrensis A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis argentea Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis aristidoides (Thunb.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis aristifolia Schweick.	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis aspera (Thunb.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis aurea (Steud.) McClean	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis barbata (Nees) H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis basutorum Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis borussica (K.Schum.) Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis calcicola H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis capensis (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis capillaris (Stapf) McClean	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis caulescens H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis chippindalliae H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis chrysura (K.Schum.) Peter	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis cirrhulosa (Nees) H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis colorata (Steud.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis curvifolia (Schrad.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis densifolia (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis dolichochaeta S.M.Phillips	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis ecklonii (Nees) McClean	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis elegans (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis eriostoma (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis exserta H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis galpinii (Stapf) McClean	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis glandulosa (Schrad.) H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis heptamera (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis holciformis (Nees) H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis humbertii A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis insularis (Hemsl.) H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis lima (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis longipes Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis malouinensis (Steud.) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis microphylla (Nees) McClean	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis montana H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis natalensis Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis oreodoxa Schweick.	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis pallescens (Schrad.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis pallida (Thunb.) H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis papillosa H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis patula (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis pictigluma (Steud.) Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis praecox H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis pseudopallescens H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis pungens H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis pyrophila H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis reflexa H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis rigidissima H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis rosea H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis rupestris (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis scandens H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis setifolia (Thunb.) McClean	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis tomentella Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis tortuosa (Trin.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis triseta (Thunb.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis trisetoides (Hochst. ex Steud.) Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis tysonii Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis velutina H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis veneta H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pentaschistis viscidula (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 106 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pentaschistis. Of these 64 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 20 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pentaschistis. 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 106 species names for the genus Pentaschistis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	64	60.4%
◕	Synonym	38	35.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	4	3.8%

All names

The status of the 126 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pentaschistis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	68	54.0%
◕	Synonym	54	42.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	4	3.2%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 106 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pentaschistis, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	64	36	0	0	100	94.3%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	1.9%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	4	4	3.8%

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