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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Perotis

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Perotis acanthoneuron Cope	Accepted		WCSP
Perotis clarksonii Veldkamp	Accepted		WCSP
Perotis flavinodula Mez	Accepted		WCSP
Perotis hildebrandtii Mez	Accepted		WCSP
Perotis hordeiformis Nees ex Hook. & Arn.	Accepted		WCSP
Perotis indica (L.) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP
Perotis leptopus Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP
Perotis patens Gand.	Accepted		WCSP
Perotis pilosa Cope	Accepted		WCSP
Perotis rara R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Perotis scabra Willd. ex Trin.	Accepted		WCSP
Perotis somalensis Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP
Perotis vaginata Hack.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 35 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Perotis. Of these 13 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 6 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Perotis. 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 35 species names for the genus Perotis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	13	37.1%
◕	Synonym	19	54.3%
◕	Unplaced	1	2.9%
◕	Unassessed	2	5.7%

All names

The status of the 41 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Perotis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	13	31.7%
◕	Synonym	25	61.0%
◕	Unplaced	1	2.4%
◕	Unassessed	2	4.9%

Of these names,

• 4 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 35 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Perotis, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	13	18	0	0	31	88.6%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	2.9%
	Low confidence	0	0	1	2	3	8.6%

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