The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Poaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Poaceae

A list of all accepted names in Poaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Poaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 777 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 48,947 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Poaceae. Of these 11,461 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 20,217 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 48,947 species names for the family Poaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 11,461 23.4%
Synonym 34,254 70.0%
Unplaced 1,211 2.5%
Unassessed 2,021 4.1%

All names

The status of the 69,164 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Poaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 11,966 17.3%
Synonym 53,647 77.6%
Unplaced 1,216 1.8%
Unassessed 2,335 3.4%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 48,947 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Poaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 11,088 30,512 0 0 41,600 85.0%
Medium confidence 240 3,033 0 0 3,273 6.7%
Low confidence 133 709 1,211 2,021 4,074 8.3%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
IOPI 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0%
Tropicos 254 3,185 0 766 0 4,205 8.6%
WCSP 11,207 31,068 1,211 1,255 0 44,741 91.4%