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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Scirpus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Scirpus ancistrochaetus Schuyler	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus angustisquamis Beetle	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus asper J.Presl & C.Presl	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus atrocinctus Fernald	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus atrovirens Willd.	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus chen-moui Tang & F.T.Wang	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus chuanus Tang & F.T.Wang	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus chunianus Tang & F.T.Wang	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus clemensiae (Kük.) Kük.	Accepted		TRO
Scirpus colchicus Kimer.	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus congdonii Britton	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus cyperinus (L.) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus dialgamensis Majeed Kak & Javeid	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus diffusus Schuyler	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus dioicus Y.N.Lee & Y.C.Oh	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus divaricatus Elliott	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus expansus Fernald	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus falsus C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus ficinioides Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus filipes C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus flaccidifolius (Fernald) Schuyler	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus fohaiensis Tang & F.T.Wang	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus fragrans Ruiz & Pav.	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus fuirenoides Maxim.	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus georgianus R.M.Harper	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus hainanensis S.M.Huang	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus hattorianus Makino	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus huae T.Koyama	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus jingmenensis Tang & F.T.Wang	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus kalmussii Aschers., Abrom. & Graebn.	Accepted		TRO
Scirpus karuisawensis Makino	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus karuizawensis Makino	Accepted		TRO
Scirpus kimsonensis N.K.Khoi	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus kunkelii Barros	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus lineatus Michx.	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus longii Fernald	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus lushanensis Ohwi	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus mattfeldianus Kük.	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus maximowiczii C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus melanocaulos Phil.	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus microcarpus J.Presl & C.Presl	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus mitsukurianus Makino	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus molinianus Beetle	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus monocephalus J.Q.He	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus naikianus M.A.Wadood Khan	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus orientalis Ohwi	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus pallidus (Britton) Fernald	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus paniculatocorymbosus Kük.	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus peckii Britton	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus pedicellatus Fernald	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus pendulus Muhl.	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus petelotii Gross	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus pinguiculus C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus polyphyllus Vahl	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus polystachyus F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus pseudoarticulatus L.K.Dai & S.M.Huang	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus radicans Schkuhr	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus reichei Boeckeler	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus rongchengensis F.Z.Li	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus rosthornii Diels	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus spegazzinianus Barros	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus sylvaticus L.	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus ternatanus Reinw. ex Miq.	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus trachycaulos Phil.	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus triquetriformis T.V. Egorova	Accepted		TRO
Scirpus trisetosus Tang & F.T.Wang	Accepted		WCSP
Scirpus wichurae Boeckeler	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 1,405 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Scirpus. Of these 67 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 434 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Scirpus. 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 1,405 species names for the genus Scirpus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	67	4.8%
◕	Synonym	1,275	90.7%
◕	Unplaced	43	3.1%
◕	Unassessed	20	1.4%

All names

The status of the 1,839 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Scirpus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	67	3.6%
◕	Synonym	1,707	92.8%
◕	Unplaced	43	2.3%
◕	Unassessed	22	1.2%

Of these names,

• 67 are recorded as invalid
• 133 are recorded as illegitimate
• 3 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 3 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 1,405 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Scirpus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	63	1,180	0	0	1,243	88.5%
	Medium confidence	4	59	0	0	63	4.5%
	Low confidence	0	36	43	20	99	7.0%

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