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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Zea

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Zea diploperennis Iltis, Doebley & R.Guzmán	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Zea luxurians (Durieu & Asch.) R.M.Bird	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Zea mays L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Zea mexicana (Schrad.) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Zea nicaraguensis Iltis & B.F.Benz	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Zea perennis (Hitchc.) Reeves & Mangelsd.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 52 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Zea. Of these 6 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 46 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Zea. 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 52 species names for the genus Zea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	11.5%
◕	Synonym	46	88.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 98 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Zea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	6.1%
◕	Synonym	92	93.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of the species names,

• 8 are recorded as invalid
• 6 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 52 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Zea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	6	44	0	0	50	96.2%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	3.8%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

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