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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pentaschistis

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Pentaschistis acinosa Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis airoides (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Pentaschistis alticola H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis ampla (Nees) McClean	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis andringitrensis A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis argentea Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis aristidoides (Thunb.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis aristifolia Schweick.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis aspera (Thunb.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis aurea (Steud.) McClean	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Pentaschistis barbata (Nees) H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis basutorum Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis borussica (K.Schum.) Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis calcicola H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis capensis (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis capillaris (Stapf) McClean	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis caulescens H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis chippindalliae H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis chrysura (K.Schum.) Peter	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis cirrhulosa (Nees) H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis colorata (Steud.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis curvifolia (Schrad.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis densifolia (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis dolichochaeta S.M.Phillips	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis ecklonii (Nees) McClean	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis elegans (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis eriostoma (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis exserta H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis galpinii (Stapf) McClean	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis glandulosa (Schrad.) H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis heptamera (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis holciformis (Nees) H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis humbertii A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis insularis (Hemsl.) H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis lima (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis longipes Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis malouinensis (Steud.) Clayton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis microphylla (Nees) McClean	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis montana H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis natalensis Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis oreodoxa Schweick.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis pallescens (Schrad.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis pallida (Thunb.) H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis papillosa H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis pappilosa H.P. Linder	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Pentaschistis patula (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis pictigluma (Steud.) Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	2
Pentaschistis praecox H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis pseudopallescens H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis pungens H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis pyrophila H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis reflexa H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis rigidissima H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis rosea H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis rupestris (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis scandens H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis setifolia (Thunb.) McClean	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis tomentella Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis tortuosa (Trin.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis triseta (Thunb.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis trisetoides (Hochst. ex Steud.) Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis tysonii Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis velutina H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis veneta H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pentaschistis viscidula (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 309 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pentaschistis. Of these 64 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 54 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pentaschistis. 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 309 species names for the genus Pentaschistis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	64	20.7%
◕	Synonym	194	62.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	51	16.5%

All names

The status of the 363 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pentaschistis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	68	18.7%
◕	Synonym	244	67.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	51	14.0%

Of the species names,

• 7 are recorded as invalid
• 24 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 309 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pentaschistis, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	18	73	0	0	91	29.4%
	Medium confidence	0	5	0	0	5	1.6%
	Low confidence	46	116	0	51	213	68.9%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Pentaschistis is as follows: