The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Lythrum

The genus Lythrum is in the family Lythraceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Lythrum

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Lythrum alatum Pursh Accepted M TRO
Lythrum baeticum Gonz.Albo Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Lythrum breviflorum (A. Gray) S. Watson Accepted M TRO
Lythrum californicum Torr. & A. Gray Accepted M TRO
Lythrum gracile Benth. Accepted M TRO
Lythrum junceum Banks & Sol. Accepted M TRO
Lythrum linearifolium (A. Gray) Small Accepted M TRO
Lythrum linifolium Kar. & Kir. Accepted M TRO
Lythrum maritimum Kunth Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Lythrum ovalifolium (A. Gray) Engelm. ex Koehne Accepted M TRO
Lythrum portula (L.) D.A. Webb Accepted M TRO
Lythrum salicaria L. Accepted M TRO
Lythrum virgatum L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Lythrum virgultosum (DC.) Griseb. Accepted M TRO
Lythrum vulneraria Aiton ex Schrank Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 183 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Lythrum. Of these 15 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 14 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Lythrum. 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 183 species names for the genus Lythrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 15 8.2%
Synonym 32 17.5%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 136 74.3%

All names

The status of the 197 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Lythrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 17 8.6%
Synonym 44 22.3%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 136 69.0%

The confidence with which the status of the 183 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Lythrum, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 15 32 0 0 47 25.7%
Low confidence 0 0 0 136 136 74.3%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 12 26 0 0 0 38 20.8%
WCSP (in review) 3 6 0 136 0 145 79.2%