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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Miscanthus

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Miscanthus changii Y.N.Lee	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Miscanthus depauperatus Merr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Miscanthus ecklonii (Nees) Mabb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Miscanthus erectus Gibbs.-Russ.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Miscanthus floridulus (Labill.) Warb. ex K.Schum. & Lauterb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Miscanthus fuscus (Roxb.) Benth.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Miscanthus × giganteus J.M.Greef , Deuter ex Hodk., Renvoize	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Miscanthus giganteus J.M. Greef & Deuter ex Hodkinson & Renvoize	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Miscanthus jinxianensis L. Liou	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Miscanthus junceus (Stapf) Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Miscanthus latissimus Y.N.Lee	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Miscanthus miser Nakai ex Honda	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Miscanthus neocoreanus Honda	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Miscanthus nepalensis (Trin.) Hack.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Miscanthus nudipes (Griseb.) Hack.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Miscanthus oligostachyus Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Miscanthus paniculatus (B.S. Sun) Renvoize & S.L. Chen	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Miscanthus sacchariflorus (Maxim.) Hack.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Miscanthus sinensis Andersson	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Miscanthus tinctorius (Steud.) Hack.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Miscanthus villosus Y.C.Liu & H.Peng	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Miscanthus violaceus (K.Schum.) Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 138 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Miscanthus. Of these 16 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 67 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Miscanthus. 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 138 species names for the genus Miscanthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	11.6%
◕	Synonym	114	82.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	8	5.8%

All names

The status of the 205 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Miscanthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	7.8%
◕	Synonym	179	87.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	10	4.9%

Of the species names,

• 10 are recorded as invalid
• 3 are recorded as illegitimate
• 3 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 138 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Miscanthus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	14	111	0	0	125	90.6%
	Medium confidence	1	2	0	0	3	2.2%
	Low confidence	1	1	0	8	10	7.2%

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