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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Polypogon

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Polypogon × adscendens Guss.	Accepted		WCSP
Polypogon australis Brongn.	Accepted		WCSP
Polypogon chilensis (Kunth) Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP
Polypogon elongatus x interruptus	Accepted		TRO
Polypogon exasperatus (Trin.) Renvoize	Accepted		WCSP
Polypogon fugax Nees ex Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Polypogon griquensis (Stapf) Gibbs.-Russ.	Accepted		TRO
Polypogon hissaricus (Roshev.) Bor	Accepted		WCSP
Polypogon × hondoensis Ohwi	Accepted		WCSP
Polypogon imberbis (Phil.) Johow	Accepted		WCSP
Polypogon interruptus Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Polypogon ivanovae Tzvelev	Accepted		WCSP
Polypogon linearis Trin.	Accepted		WCSP
Polypogon maritimus Willd.	Accepted		WCSP
Polypogon mollis (Thouars) C.E.Hubb. & E.W.Groves	Accepted		WCSP
Polypogon monspeliensis (L.) Desf.	Accepted		WCSP
Polypogon parvulus Roseng., B.R.Arrill. & Izag.	Accepted		WCSP
Polypogon pygmeus Tzvelev	Accepted		WCSP
Polypogon schimperianus (Hochst. ex Steud.) Cope	Accepted		WCSP
Polypogon tenellus R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Polypogon tenuis Brongn.	Accepted		WCSP
Polypogon viridis (Gouan) Breistr.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 104 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Polypogon. Of these 22 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 34 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Polypogon. 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 104 species names for the genus Polypogon recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	22	21.2%
◕	Synonym	67	64.4%
◕	Unplaced	1	1.0%
◕	Unassessed	14	13.5%

All names

The status of the 138 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Polypogon recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	22	15.9%
◕	Synonym	101	73.2%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.7%
◕	Unassessed	14	10.1%

Of these names,

• 5 are recorded as invalid
• 8 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 104 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Polypogon, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	20	56	0	0	76	73.1%
	Medium confidence	2	7	0	0	9	8.7%
	Low confidence	0	4	1	14	19	18.3%

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