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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Zea

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Zea diploperennis Iltis, Doebley & R.Guzmán	Accepted		WCSP
Zea luxurians (Durieu & Asch.) R.M.Bird	Accepted		WCSP
Zea mays L.	Accepted		WCSP
Zea mexicana (Schrad.) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP
Zea nicaraguensis Iltis & B.F.Benz	Accepted		WCSP
Zea perennis (Hitchc.) Reeves & Mangelsd.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 40 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Zea. Of these 6 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 45 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Zea. 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 40 species names for the genus Zea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	15.0%
◕	Synonym	34	85.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 85 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Zea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	8	9.4%
◕	Synonym	77	90.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 7 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 40 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Zea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	6	31	0	0	37	92.5%
	Medium confidence	0	3	0	0	3	7.5%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

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