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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
Kyllinga afro-occidentalis Lye	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga afropumila Lye	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga alba Nees	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga alba-purpurea Lye	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga albiceps (Ridl.) Rendle	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga albogracilis Lye	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga aureovillosa Lye	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga beninensis Samain, Reynders & Goetgh.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga bigibbosa (Fosberg) Lye	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga brevifolia Rottb.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga brunneoalata Cherm.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga brunneoalba Lye	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga buchananii C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga bulbosa P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga cardosii Meneses	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga cartilaginea K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga chlorotropis Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga chrysantha K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga chrysanthoides Mtot.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga comosipes (Mattf. & Kük.) Napper	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga controversa Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga coriacea Cherm.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga crassipes Boeckeler	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga curvispiculosa (T.Koyama) P.H.Hô	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga debilis C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga echinata S.S.Hooper	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga eglandulosa Govind. & Ramani	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga elatior Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga erecta Schumach.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga exigua Boeckeler	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga eximia C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga filicula C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga gracillima Miq.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga inaurata Nees ex Boeckeler	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga jubensis Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga kamschatica Meinsh.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga kilianii Muasya & D.A.Simpson	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga lehmannii Nees	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga melanosperma Nees	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga microbracteata Lye	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga microbulbosa Lye	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga microstyla C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga nemoralis (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) Dandy ex Hutch. & Dalziel	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga nervosa Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga ngothe Mtot.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga nigripes C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga nudiceps C.B.Clarke ex Standl.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga odorata Vahl	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga pachystyla Kük.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga pauciflora Ridl.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga peteri (Kük.) Lye	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga planiculmis C.B.Clarke ex Cherm.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga platyphylla K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga pluristaminea Govind. & Ramani	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga polyphylla Willd. ex Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga pseudobulbosa Mtot.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga pulchella Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga pumila Michx.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga rhizomafragilis Lye	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga robinsoniana Mtot.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga senegalensis C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga songeensis Lye	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga sphaerocephala Boeckeler	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga squamulata Vahl	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga stenophylla K.Schum. ex C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga tanzaniae Lye	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga tibialis Poit. ex Ledeb.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga tisserantii Cherm.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga tisserantioides Mtot.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga ugogensis (Peter & Kük.) Lye	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga uniflora Mtot.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga urbanii Kük.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga vaginata Lam.	Accepted		WCSP
Kyllinga welwitschii Ridl.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 245 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Kyllinga. Of these 74 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 108 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 245 species names for the genus Kyllinga recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	74	30.2%
◕	Synonym	167	68.2%
◕	Unplaced	2	0.8%
◕	Unassessed	2	0.8%

All names

The status of the 353 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Kyllinga recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	98	27.8%
◕	Synonym	250	70.8%
◕	Unplaced	2	0.6%
◕	Unassessed	3	0.8%

Of these names,

• 9 are recorded as invalid
• 24 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 245 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Kyllinga, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	74	157	0	0	231	94.3%
	Medium confidence	0	10	0	0	10	4.1%
	Low confidence	0	0	2	2	4	1.6%

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