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The genus Elegia is in the family Restionaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Elegia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Elegia altigena Pillans	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia asperiflora (Nees) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia atratiflora Esterh.	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia caespitosa Esterh.	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia capensis (Burm.f.) Schelpe	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia coleura Nees ex Mast.	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia cuspidata Mast.	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia equisetacea (Mast.) Mast.	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia esterhuyseniae Pillans	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia extensa Pillans	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia fastigata Mast.	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia fenestrata Pillans	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia filacea Mast.	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia fistulosa Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia fucata Esterh.	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia galpinii N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia grandis (Spreng. ex Nees) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia grandispicata H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia hutchinsonii Pillans	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia intermedia (Steud.) Pillans	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia juncea L.	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia muirii Pillans	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia neesii Mast.	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia persistens Mast.	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia prominens Pillans	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia racemosa (Poir.) Pers.	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia rigida Mast.	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia spathacea Mast.	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia squamosa Mast.	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia stipularis Mast.	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia stokoei Pillans	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia thyrsifera (Rottb.) Pers.	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia thyrsoidea (Mast.) Pillans	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia vaginulata Mast.	Accepted		WCSP
Elegia verreauxii Mast.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 61 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Elegia. Of these 35 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 8 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Elegia. 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 Elegia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	35	57.4%
◕	Synonym	26	42.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 69 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Elegia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	35	50.7%
◕	Synonym	34	49.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as illegitimate

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

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	35	26	0	0	61	100%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

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