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The genus Kyllinga is in the family Cyperaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Kyllinga

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Kyllinga afro-occidentalis Lye	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga afropumila Lye	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga alba Nees	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	2
Kyllinga alba-purpurea Lye	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga albiceps (Ridl.) Rendle	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga albogracilis Lye	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga ambigua Steud.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga aureovillosa Lye	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga beninensis Samain, Reynders & Goetgh.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga bigibbosa (Fosberg) Lye	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga brevifolia Rottb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	2
Kyllinga brunneoalata Cherm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga brunneoalba Lye	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga buchananii C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga bulbosa P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga capillaris Sw.	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Kyllinga cardosii Meneses	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga cartilaginea K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga cataphyllata Huygh & Schouppe	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga chlorotropis Steud.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga chrysantha K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga chrysanthoides Mtot.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga chysanthoides Mtotomwema	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Kyllinga comosipes (Mattf. & Kük.) Napper	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Kyllinga controversa Steud.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga coriacea Cherm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga crassipes Boeckeler	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga curvispiculosa (T.Koyama) P.H.Hô	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga debilis C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga echinata S.S.Hooper	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga eglandulosa Govind. & Ramani	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga elata Steud.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga erecta Schumach.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Kyllinga exigua Boeckeler	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga eximia C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga filicula C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga flava C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga gracillima Miq.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga inaurata Nees ex Boeckeler	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga jubensis Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga kamschatica Meinsh.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga kilianii Muasya & D.A.Simpson	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga lehmannii Nees	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga liebmanniana Steud.	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Kyllinga mbitheana Muasya	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga melanosperma Nees	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	2
Kyllinga microbracteata Lye	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga microbulbosa Lye	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga microstyla C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga nemoralis (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Dandy ex Hutch. & Dalziel	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga nervosa Steud.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	2
Kyllinga ngothe Mtot.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga nigripes C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga nudiceps C.B.Clarke ex Standl.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga oblonga C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga odorata Vahl	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	2
Kyllinga pachystyla Kük.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga pauciflora Ridl.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga peteri (Kük.) Lye	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga planiculmis C.B.Clarke ex Cherm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga platyphylla K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga pluristaminea Govind. & Ramani	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga polyphylla Willd. ex Kunth	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Kyllinga primula Michx.	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Kyllinga pseudobulbosa Mtot.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga pulchella Kunth	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga pumila Michx.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga ramosa Sessé & Moc.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga rhizomafragilis Lye	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga robinsoniana Mtot.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga ruwenzoriensis C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga senegalensis C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga songeensis Lye	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga squamulata Vahl	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga stenophylla K.Schum. ex C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga tanzaniae Lye	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga tenuifolia Steud.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Kyllinga tibialis Poit. ex Ledeb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga tisserantii Cherm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga tisserantioides Mtot.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga ugogensis (Peter & Kük.) Lye	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga uniflora Mtot.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga urbanii Kük.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Kyllinga vaginata Lam.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 282 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Kyllinga. Of these 78 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 203 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Kyllinga. 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 282 species names for the genus Kyllinga recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	78	27.7%
◕	Synonym	198	70.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	6	2.1%

All names

The status of the 485 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Kyllinga recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	92	19.0%
◕	Synonym	387	79.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	6	1.2%

Of the species names,

• 9 are recorded as invalid
• 21 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 282 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Kyllinga, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	78	194	0	0	272	96.5%
	Medium confidence	0	3	0	0	3	1.1%
	Low confidence	0	1	0	6	7	2.5%

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