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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cenchrus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cenchrus agrimonioides Trin.	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus arnhemicus (F. Muell.) Morrone	Accepted		TRO
Cenchrus biflorus Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus brownii Roem. & Schult.	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus caliculatus Cav.	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus caninus (Reinw. ex Blume) Morrone	Accepted		TRO
Cenchrus ciliaris L.	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus distichophyllus Griseb.	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus echinatus L.	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus elymoides F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus flexilis (Mez) Morrone	Accepted		TRO
Cenchrus gracillimus Nash	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus incertus M.A.Curtis	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus longispinus (Hack.) Fernald	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus mitis Andersson	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus multiflorus J.Presl	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus myosuroides Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus palmeri Vasey	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus pennisetiformis Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus pilosus Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus platyacanthus Andersson	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus prieurii (Kunth) Maire	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus robustus R.D.Webster	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus setigerus Vahl	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus somalensis Clayton	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus tribuloides L.	Accepted		WCSP
Cenchrus violaceus (Lam.) Morrone	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 215 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cenchrus. Of these 27 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 48 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cenchrus. 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 215 species names for the genus Cenchrus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	27	12.6%
◕	Synonym	181	84.2%
◕	Unplaced	6	2.8%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.5%

All names

The status of the 263 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cenchrus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	27	10.3%
◕	Synonym	229	87.1%
◕	Unplaced	6	2.3%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.4%

Of these names,

• 23 are recorded as invalid
• 13 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 215 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cenchrus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	23	103	0	0	126	58.6%
	Medium confidence	2	76	0	0	78	36.3%
	Low confidence	2	2	6	1	11	5.1%

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