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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Theobroma

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Theobroma angustifolium Sessé & Moc. ex DC.	Accepted		TRO
Theobroma bernoullii Pittier	Accepted		TRO
Theobroma bicolor Humb. & Bonpl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Theobroma cacao L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Theobroma gileri Cuatrec.	Accepted		TRO
Theobroma glaucum H. Karst.	Accepted		TRO
Theobroma grandiflorum (Willd. ex Spreng.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Theobroma hylaeum Cuatrec.	Accepted		TRO
Theobroma mammosum Cuatrec. & Jorge León	Accepted		TRO
Theobroma microcarpum Mart.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Theobroma obovatum Klotzsch ex Bernoulli	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Theobroma simiarum Donn. Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Theobroma sinuosum Pav. ex Huber	Accepted		TRO
Theobroma speciosum Willd. ex Spreng.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Theobroma subincanum Mart.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Theobroma sylvestre Aubl. ex Mart. in Buchner	Accepted		TRO
Theobroma velutinum Benoist	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 71 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Theobroma. Of these 17 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 17 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Theobroma. 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 71 species names for the genus Theobroma recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	17	23.9%
◕	Synonym	40	56.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	14	19.7%

All names

The status of the 88 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Theobroma recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	21	23.9%
◕	Synonym	53	60.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	14	15.9%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 71 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Theobroma, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	17	40	0	0	57	80.3%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	14	14	19.7%

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