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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Imperata

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Imperata brasiliensis Trin.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Imperata brevifolia Vasey	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Imperata cheesemanii Hack.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Imperata condensata Steud.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Imperata conferta (J.Presl) Ohwi	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Imperata contracta (Humb., Bonpl. & Kunth) Hitchc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Imperata cylindrica (L.) Raeusch.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Imperata flavida S.M.Phillips & S.L.Chen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Imperata minutiflora Hack.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Imperata parodii Acev.-Rodr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Imperata tenuis Hack.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 61 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Imperata. Of these 11 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 30 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Imperata. 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 61 species names for the genus Imperata recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	18.0%
◕	Synonym	50	82.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 91 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Imperata recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	12.1%
◕	Synonym	80	87.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of the species names,

• 6 are recorded as invalid
• 3 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 61 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Imperata, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	11	49	0	0	60	98.4%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	1.6%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

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