⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

The genus Bombax is in the family Malvaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Bombax

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Bombax albidum Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bombax anceps Pierre	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bombax blancoanum A.Robyns	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bombax buonopozense P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bombax ceiba L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bombax costatum Pellegr. & Vuillet	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Bombax insigne Wall.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 171 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Bombax. Of these 7 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 31 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Bombax. 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 171 species names for the genus Bombax recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	7	4.1%
◕	Synonym	133	77.8%
◕	Unplaced	10	5.8%
◕	Unassessed	21	12.3%

All names

The status of the 202 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Bombax recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	8	4.0%
◕	Synonym	161	79.7%
◕	Unplaced	10	5.0%
◕	Unassessed	23	11.4%

Of these names,

• 6 are recorded as invalid
• 3 are recorded as illegitimate
• 2 are recorded as a spelling variant

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

The confidence with which the status of the 171 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Bombax, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	7	128	0	0	135	78.9%
	Low confidence	0	5	10	21	36	21.1%

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