The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Leucothoe

The genus Leucothoe is in the family Ericaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Leucothoe

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Leucothoe acuminata (Aiton) G. Don Accepted L TRO
Leucothoe axillaris (Lam.) D. Don Accepted L TRO
Leucothoe catesbaei (Walter) A. Gray Accepted L TRO
Leucothoe fontanesiana (Steud.) Sleumer Accepted L TRO
Leucothoe griffithiana C.B. Clarke Accepted M TRO
Leucothoe racemosa (L.) A. Gray Accepted L TRO
Leucothoe tonkinensis Dop Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 95 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Leucothoe. Of these 7 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 46 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Leucothoe. 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 95 species names for the genus Leucothoe recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 7 7.4%
Synonym 68 71.6%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 20 21.1%

All names

The status of the 141 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Leucothoe recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 10 7.1%
Synonym 111 78.7%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 20 14.2%

The confidence with which the status of the 95 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Leucothoe, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 2 45 0 0 47 49.5%
Low confidence 5 23 0 20 48 50.5%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 7 63 0 0 0 70 73.7%
WCSP (in review) 0 5 0 20 0 25 26.3%