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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Sorghastrum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Sorghastrum balansae (Hack.) Dávila	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghastrum brunneum Swallen	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghastrum chasae Swallen	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghastrum contractum (Hack.) M.Kuhlm. & Kuhn	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghastrum elliottii (C.Mohr) Nash	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghastrum fuscescens (Pilg.) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghastrum incompletum (J.Presl) Nash	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghastrum minarum (Nees) Hitchc.	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghastrum nudipes Nash	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghastrum nutans (L.) Nash	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghastrum pellitum (Hack.) Parodi	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghastrum pogonostachyum (Stapf) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghastrum pohlianum Dávila, L.I.Cabrera & R.Lira	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghastrum scaberrimum (Nees) Herter	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghastrum secundum (Elliott) Nash	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghastrum setosum (Griseb.) Hitchc.	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghastrum stipoides (Kunth) Nash	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghastrum tisserantii Clayton	Accepted		WCSP
Sorghastrum viride Swallen	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 42 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Sorghastrum. Of these 19 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 6 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Sorghastrum. 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 42 species names for the genus Sorghastrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	19	45.2%
◕	Synonym	21	50.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	4.8%

All names

The status of the 48 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Sorghastrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	19	39.6%
◕	Synonym	27	56.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	4.2%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 42 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Sorghastrum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	19	21	0	0	40	95.2%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	2	2	4.8%

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