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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Leersia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Leersia angustifolia Prodoehl	Accepted		WCSP
Leersia denudata Launert	Accepted		WCSP
Leersia drepanothrix Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Leersia friesii Melderis	Accepted		WCSP
Leersia hexandra Sw.	Accepted		WCSP
Leersia japonica (Honda) Honda	Accepted		WCSP
Leersia lenticularis Michx.	Accepted		WCSP
Leersia ligularis Trin.	Accepted		WCSP
Leersia monandra Sw.	Accepted		WCSP
Leersia nematostachya Launert	Accepted		WCSP
Leersia oncothrix C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Leersia oryzoides (L.) Sw.	Accepted		WCSP
Leersia perrieri (A.Camus) Launert	Accepted		WCSP
Leersia sayanuka Ohwi	Accepted		WCSP
Leersia stipitata Bor	Accepted		WCSP
Leersia tisserantii (A.Chev.) Launert	Accepted		WCSP
Leersia triandra C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Leersia virginica Willd.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 61 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Leersia. Of these 18 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 22 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Leersia. 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 61 species names for the genus Leersia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	18	29.5%
◕	Synonym	43	70.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 83 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Leersia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	22	26.5%
◕	Synonym	61	73.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 6 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 61 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Leersia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	18	37	0	0	55	90.2%
	Medium confidence	0	6	0	0	6	9.8%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

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