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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Fuirena

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Fuirena abnormalis C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena angolensis (C.B.Clarke) Lye ex J.Raynal & Roessler	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena appendiculata Peter	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena arenosa R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena bernieri Cherm.	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena boreocoerulescens Lye	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena brachylepis Peter	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena brasiliensis Palla	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena breviseta (Coville) Coville	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena bullifera J.Raynal & Roessler	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena bushii Kral	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena calolepis K. Schum.	Accepted		TRO
Fuirena camptotricha C.Wright	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena ciliaris (L.) Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena claviseta Peter	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena coerulescens Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena cuspidata (Roth) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena ecklonii Nees	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena enodis C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena felicis S.S.Hooper	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena friesii Kük.	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena gracilis Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena hirsuta (P.J.Bergius) P.L.Forbes	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena incompleta Nees	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena incrassata S.T.Blake	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena lainzii Luceño & M.Alves	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena leptostachya Oliv.	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena longa Chapm.	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena microcarpa Lye	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena moritziana Boeckeler	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena multiflora Peter	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena nudiflora S.T.Blake	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena nyasensis Nelmes	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena obcordata P.L.Forbes	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena ochreata Nees ex Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena oedipus C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena ponmudiensis Ravi & Anil Kumar	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena pubescens (Poir.) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena pumila (Torr.) Spreng.	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena quercina Cherm.	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena repens Boeckeler	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena rhizomatifera Tang & F.T.Wang	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena robusta Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena sagittata Lye	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena scirpoidea Michx.	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena simplex Vahl	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena simpsonii Ravi, N.Mohanan & Shaju	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena somaliensis Lye	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena squarrosa Michx.	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena stephani Ramos & Diego	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena striatella Lye	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena stricta Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena subdigitata C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena swamyi Govind.	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena tenuis P.L.Forbes	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena trilobites C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena tuwensis M.B.Deshp. & Shah	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena umbellata Rottb.	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena uncinata (Willd.) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Fuirena zambesiaca Lye	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 131 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Fuirena. Of these 60 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 28 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Fuirena. 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 131 species names for the genus Fuirena recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	60	45.8%
◕	Synonym	70	53.4%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.8%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 159 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Fuirena recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	70	44.0%
◕	Synonym	88	55.3%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.6%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 131 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Fuirena, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	59	65	0	0	124	94.7%
	Medium confidence	1	5	0	0	6	4.6%
	Low confidence	0	0	1	0	1	0.8%

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