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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cenchrus

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Cenchrus agrimonioides Trin.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus arnhemicus (F.Muell.) Morrone	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus biflorus Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus brownii Roem. & Schult.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus caliculatus Cav.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus chilensis (E.Desv.) Morrone	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus ciliaris L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus compressus (R.Br.) Morrone	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus distichophyllus Griseb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus echinatus L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus elymoides F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus flaccidus (Griseb.) Morrone	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus flexilis (Mez) Morrone	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus glaucocladus (Stapf & C.E.Hubb.) Morrone	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus gracilis P.Beauv.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus gracillimus Nash	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus heterochaetus Steud.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus latifolius (Spreng.) Morrone	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus limensis Meyen	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus longispinus (Hack.) Fernald	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus mitis Andersson	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus multiflorus J.Presl	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus myosuroides Kunth	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus ovatus Lam. ex Poir.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus palmeri Vasey	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus pennisetiformis Steud.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus pilosus Kunth	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus platyacanthus Andersson	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus polystachios (L.) Morrone	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus prieurii (Kunth) Maire	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus ramosus (Hochst.) Morrone	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus robustus R.D.Webster	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus setiger Vahl	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus somalensis Clayton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus spinifex Cav.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus spinosus Rojas Acosta	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus subangustus (Schumach.) Morrone	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus tomentosus Poir.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus tribuloides L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cenchrus violaceus (Lam.) Morrone	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 158 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cenchrus. Of these 23 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 52 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cenchrus. 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 158 species names for the genus Cenchrus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	23	14.6%
◕	Synonym	113	71.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	22	13.9%

All names

The status of the 210 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cenchrus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	23	11.0%
◕	Synonym	165	78.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	22	10.5%

Of the species names,

• 16 are recorded as invalid
• 13 are recorded as illegitimate
• 2 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 158 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cenchrus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	22	101	0	0	123	77.8%
	Medium confidence	0	7	0	0	7	4.4%
	Low confidence	1	5	0	22	28	17.7%

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