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Phragmites

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Phragmites

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. Accepted H WCSP
Phragmites japonicus Steud. Accepted H WCSP
Phragmites karka (Retz.) Trin. ex Steud. Accepted H WCSP
Phragmites mauritianus Kunth Accepted H WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 87 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Phragmites. Of these 4 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 101 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Phragmites. 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 87 species names for the genus Phragmites recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 4 4.6%
Synonym 78 89.7%
Unplaced 2 2.3%
Unassessed 3 3.4%

All names

The status of the 188 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Phragmites recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 6 3.2%
Synonym 172 91.5%
Unplaced 2 1.1%
Unassessed 8 4.3%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 87 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Phragmites, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 4 62 0 0 66 75.9%
Medium confidence 0 16 0 0 16 18.4%
Low confidence 0 0 2 3 5 5.7%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 16 0 3 0 19 21.8%
WCSP 4 62 2 0 0 68 78.2%