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Ornithopus

The genus Ornithopus is in the family Leguminosae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Ornithopus

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Ornithopus compressus L. Accepted H ILDIS
Ornithopus micranthus (Benth.) Arechav. Accepted H ILDIS
Ornithopus perpusillus L. Accepted H ILDIS
Ornithopus pinnatus (Mill.) Druce Accepted H ILDIS
Ornithopus sativus Brot. Accepted H ILDIS
Ornithopus uncinatus Maire & Sam. Accepted H ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 50 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Ornithopus. Of these 6 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 4 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Ornithopus. 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 50 species names for the genus Ornithopus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 6 12.0%
Synonym 13 26.0%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 31 62.0%

All names

The status of the 54 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Ornithopus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 7 13.0%
Synonym 15 27.8%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 32 59.3%

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

The confidence with which the status of the 50 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Ornithopus, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 6 12 0 0 18 36.0%
Medium confidence 0 1 0 0 1 2.0%
Low confidence 0 0 0 31 31 62.0%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
ILDIS 6 12 0 0 1 19 38.0%
Tropicos 0 1 0 1 0 2 4.0%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 30 0 30 60.0%