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The genus Cotyledon is in the family Crassulaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cotyledon

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cotyledon adscendens Dyer	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cotyledon barbeyi Schweinf. ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cotyledon campanulata Marloth	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cotyledon cuneata Thunb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cotyledon eliseae van Jaarsv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cotyledon elongata (Rose) Fedde	Accepted		TRO
Cotyledon orbiculata L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cotyledon papillaris L.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cotyledon pendens van Jaarsv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cotyledon tomentosa Harv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cotyledon velutina Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cotyledon woodii Schönland & Baker f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 431 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cotyledon. Of these 12 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 40 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cotyledon. 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 431 species names for the genus Cotyledon recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	12	2.8%
◕	Synonym	308	71.5%
◕	Unplaced	34	7.9%
◕	Unassessed	77	17.9%

All names

The status of the 471 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cotyledon recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	17	3.6%
◕	Synonym	341	72.4%
◕	Unplaced	34	7.2%
◕	Unassessed	79	16.8%

Of these names,

• 12 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 431 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cotyledon, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	12	245	0	0	257	59.6%
	Low confidence	0	63	34	77	174	40.4%

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