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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Saccharum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Saccharum alopecuroides (L.) Nutt.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum angustifolium (Nees) Trin.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum arundinaceum Retz.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum asperum (Nees) Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum balansae (Hack.) Roberty	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum beccarii (Stapf) Cope	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum bengalense Retz.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum brevibarbe (Michx.) Pers.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum coarctatum (Fernald) R.D.Webster	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum contortum (Elliott) Nutt.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum fallax Balansa	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum filifolium Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum formosanum (Stapf) Ohwi	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum giganteum (Walter) Pers.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum griffithii Munro ex Aitch.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum hildebrandtii (Hack.) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum kajkaiense (Melderis) Melderis	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum kanashiroi (Ohwi) Ohwi	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum longisetosum (Andersson) V.Naray. ex Bor	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum macrantherum (Pilg.) S. Ahmad & R.R. Stewart	Accepted		TRO
Saccharum maximum (Brongn.) Trin.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum narenga (Nees ex Steud.) Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum officinarum L.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum perrieri (A.Camus) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum procerum Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum ravennae (L.) L.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum robustum E.W.Brandes & Jeswiet ex Grassl	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum rufipilum Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum sikkimense (Hook.f.) V.Naray. ex Bor	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum sinense Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum spontaneum L.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum stewartii Rajesw., R.R.Rao & Arti Garg	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum strictum (Host) Spreng.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum viguieri (A.Camus) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum villosum Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum wardii (Bor) Bor ex Cope	Accepted		WCSP
Saccharum williamsii (Bor) Bor ex Cope	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 198 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Saccharum. Of these 37 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 57 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Saccharum. 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 198 species names for the genus Saccharum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	37	18.7%
◕	Synonym	148	74.7%
◕	Unplaced	9	4.5%
◕	Unassessed	4	2.0%

All names

The status of the 255 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Saccharum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	40	15.7%
◕	Synonym	202	79.2%
◕	Unplaced	9	3.5%
◕	Unassessed	4	1.6%

Of these names,

• 19 are recorded as invalid
• 9 are recorded as illegitimate
• 2 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 198 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Saccharum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	36	132	0	0	168	84.8%
	Medium confidence	1	16	0	0	17	8.6%
	Low confidence	0	0	9	4	13	6.6%

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