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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Cyperaceae

Cyperaceae

The family Cyperaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

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A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Cyperaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Cyperaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 110 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 18,812 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Cyperaceae. Of these 5,784 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 8,830 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Cyperaceae. 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 18,812 species names for the family Cyperaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5,784	30.7%
◕	Synonym	12,391	65.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	637	3.4%

All names

The status of the 27,642 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Cyperaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6,265	22.7%
◕	Synonym	20,727	75.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	650	2.4%

Of the species names,

378 are recorded as invalid
1,407 are recorded as illegitimate
23 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 15 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 18,812 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Cyperaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	5,717	11,976	0	17,693	94.1%
Medium confidence	63	333	0	396	2.1%
Low confidence	4	82	637	723	3.8%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
IOPI	0	2	0	0	2	0.0%
Tropicos	65	339	244	0	648	3.4%
WCSP	5,719	12,050	388	15	18,157	96.5%
WCSP (in review)	0	0	5	0	5	0.0%