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The genus Diastema is in the family Gesneriaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Diastema

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Diastema affine Fritsch	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema comiferum (DC.) Benth. ex Walp.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema eggersianum Fritsch	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema gymnoleuca Gilli	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema hispidum (DC.) Fritsch	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema incisum Benth.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema kalbreyeri Fritsch	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema latiflora Rusby	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema lehmannii Regel	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema maculatum (Poepp.) Benth. ex Walp.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema micranthum Donn.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema purpurascens Rusby	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema racemiferum Benth.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema rupestre Brandegee	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema scabrum (Poepp.) Benth. ex Walp.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema sodiroanum Fritsch	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema tenerrimum (Poepp.) Benth. ex Walp.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema urticifolium (Poepp.) Benth. ex Walp.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema vexans H.E.Moore	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema weberbaueri Fitsch	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Diastema williamsii Rusby	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 44 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Diastema. Of these 21 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Diastema. 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 44 species names for the genus Diastema recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	21	47.7%
◕	Synonym	11	25.0%
◕	Unplaced	1	2.3%
◕	Unassessed	11	25.0%

All names

The status of the 45 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Diastema recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	21	46.7%
◕	Synonym	12	26.7%
◕	Unplaced	1	2.2%
◕	Unassessed	11	24.4%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 44 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Diastema, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	20	7	0	0	27	61.4%
	Low confidence	1	4	1	11	17	38.6%

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