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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Leptochloa

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Leptochloa anoplia Nees	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa aquatica Scribn. & Merr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa asthenes (Roem. & Schult.) C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa barbata (Desv.) Nicora	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa caerulescens Steud.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa caudata (K.Schum.) N.W.Snow	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa chinensis (L.) Nees	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa chloridiformis (Hack.) Parodi	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa decipiens (R.Br.) Stapf ex Maiden	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Leptochloa digitata (R.Br.) Domin	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa divaricatissima S.T.Blake	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa dubia (Kunth) Nees	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa eleusine (Nees) Cope & N.Snow	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa fusca (L.) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	3
Leptochloa gigantea (Launert) Cope & N.Snow	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa humilis Nees ex Steud.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa laxa Trin. ex Steud.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa ligulata Lazarides	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa longa Griseb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa malayana (C.E.Hubb.) Jansen ex Veldkamp	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa marquisensis (F.Br.) P.M.Peterson & Judz.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa monticola Chase	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa mucronata (Michx.) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa nealleyi Vasey	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa neesii (Thwaites) Benth.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa obtusiflora Hochst.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa panicea (Retz.) Ohwi	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Leptochloa panicoides (J.Presl) Hitchc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa parviflora (R.Br.) Verloove & Lambinon	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa rupestris C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa scabra Nees	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa simoniana N.Snow	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa southwoodii N.Snow & B.K.Simon	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa squarrosa Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa srilankensis N.Snow	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa tectoneticola (Backer) Jansen ex Veldkamp	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa uniflora Hochst. ex A.Rich.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa virgata (L.) P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa viscida (Scribn.) Beal	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa xerophila P.M.Peterson & Judz.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Leptochloa yemensis Schweinf. ex Penz.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 288 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Leptochloa. Of these 36 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 46 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Leptochloa. 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 288 species names for the genus Leptochloa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	36	12.5%
◕	Synonym	247	85.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	5	1.7%

All names

The status of the 334 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Leptochloa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	41	12.3%
◕	Synonym	288	86.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	5	1.5%

Of the species names,

• 26 are recorded as invalid
• 16 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 288 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Leptochloa, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	36	240	0	0	276	95.8%
	Medium confidence	0	5	0	0	5	1.7%
	Low confidence	0	2	0	5	7	2.4%

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