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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Spartina

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Spartina alterniflora Loisel.	Accepted		WCSP
Spartina anglica C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Spartina arundinacea (Thouars) Carmich.	Accepted		WCSP
Spartina bakeri Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Spartina caespitosa Eaton	Accepted		WCSP
Spartina ciliata Brongn.	Accepted		WCSP
Spartina cynosuroides (L.) Roth	Accepted		WCSP
Spartina densiflora Brongn.	Accepted		WCSP
Spartina foliosa Trin.	Accepted		WCSP
Spartina gracilis Trin.	Accepted		WCSP
Spartina longispica Hauman & Parodi ex St.-Yves	Accepted		WCSP
Spartina maritima (Curtis) Fernald	Accepted		WCSP
Spartina × neyrautii Foucaud	Accepted		WCSP
Spartina patens (Aiton.) Muhl.	Accepted		WCSP
Spartina pectinata Bosc ex Link	Accepted		WCSP
Spartina spartinae (Trin.) Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Spartina × townsendii H.Groves & J.Groves	Accepted		WCSP
Spartina versicolor Fabre	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 61 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Spartina. Of these 18 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 39 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Spartina. 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 61 species names for the genus Spartina recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	18	29.5%
◕	Synonym	42	68.9%
◕	Unplaced	1	1.6%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 100 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Spartina recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	18	18.0%
◕	Synonym	81	81.0%
◕	Unplaced	1	1.0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 61 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Spartina, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	18	33	0	0	51	83.6%
	Medium confidence	0	9	0	0	9	14.8%
	Low confidence	0	0	1	0	1	1.6%

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