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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pieris

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Pieris cubensis (Griseb.) Small	Accepted		TRO
Pieris floribunda (Pursh) Benth. & Hook. f.	Accepted		TRO
Pieris formosa (Wall.) D. Don	Accepted		TRO
Pieris japonica (Thunb.) D. Don ex G. Don	Accepted		TRO
Pieris swinhoei Hemsl.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 56 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pieris. Of these 5 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 15 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pieris. 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 56 species names for the genus Pieris recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5	8.9%
◕	Synonym	39	69.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	12	21.4%

All names

The status of the 71 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pieris recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5	7.0%
◕	Synonym	54	76.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	12	16.9%

The confidence with which the status of the 56 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pieris, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	1	27	0	0	28	50.0%
	Low confidence	4	12	0	12	28	50.0%

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