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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Poaceae

Poaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

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A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Poaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Poaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 759 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 47,428 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Poaceae. Of these 11,554 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 20,357 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Poaceae. 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 47,428 species names for the family Poaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11,554	24.4%
◕	Synonym	32,806	69.2%
◕	Unplaced	3	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	3,065	6.5%

All names

The status of the 67,785 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Poaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11,883	17.5%
◕	Synonym	52,538	77.5%
◕	Unplaced	3	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	3,361	5.0%

Of the species names,

3,198 are recorded as invalid
2,715 are recorded as illegitimate
227 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 47,428 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Poaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	11,071	29,715	0	0	40,786	86.0%
Medium confidence	170	1,157	0	0	1,327	2.8%
Low confidence	313	1,934	3	3,065	5,315	11.2%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Poaceae is as follows:

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
IOPI	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.0%
TICA	1	0	0	18	0	19	0.0%
Tropicos	175	1,268	0	596	0	2,039	4.3%
WCSP	11,378	31,537	0	2,438	1	45,353	95.6%
WCSP (in review)	0	0	3	13	0	16	0.0%