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The genus Saponaria is in the family Caryophyllaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Saponaria

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Saponaria bellidifolia Sm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Saponaria caespitosa DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Saponaria calabrica Guss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Saponaria chlorifolia (Poir.) Kunze	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Saponaria glutinosa M.Bieb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Saponaria gypsacea Vved.	Accepted		TRO
Saponaria lutea L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Saponaria ocymoides L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Saponaria officinalis L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Saponaria orientalis L.	Accepted		TRO
Saponaria prostrata Willd.	Accepted		TRO
Saponaria pumilio (L.) Fenzl ex A.Braun	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Saponaria sicula Raf.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Saponaria spathulifolia Vved.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 128 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Saponaria. Of these 14 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 5 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Saponaria. 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 128 species names for the genus Saponaria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	14	10.9%
◕	Synonym	38	29.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	76	59.4%

All names

The status of the 133 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Saponaria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	12.0%
◕	Synonym	41	30.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	76	57.1%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 128 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Saponaria, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	14	36	0	0	50	39.1%
	Low confidence	0	2	0	76	78	60.9%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Saponaria, are as follows: