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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cynosurus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cynosurus balansae Coss. & Durieu	Accepted		WCSP
Cynosurus coloratus Lehm. ex Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Cynosurus cristatus L.	Accepted		WCSP
Cynosurus echinatus L.	Accepted		WCSP
Cynosurus elegans Desf.	Accepted		WCSP
Cynosurus junceus Murb.	Accepted		WCSP
Cynosurus peltieri Maire	Accepted		WCSP
Cynosurus polybracteatus Poir.	Accepted		WCSP
Cynosurus turcomanicus Proskur.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 98 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cynosurus. Of these 9 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 17 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cynosurus. 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 98 species names for the genus Cynosurus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	9	9.2%
◕	Synonym	79	80.6%
◕	Unplaced	7	7.1%
◕	Unassessed	3	3.1%

All names

The status of the 115 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cynosurus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	9	7.8%
◕	Synonym	96	83.5%
◕	Unplaced	7	6.1%
◕	Unassessed	3	2.6%

Of these names,

• 20 are recorded as invalid
• 5 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 98 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cynosurus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	9	77	0	0	86	87.8%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	1.0%
	Low confidence	0	1	7	3	11	11.2%

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