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The genus Peristylus is in the family Orchidaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Peristylus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Peristylus affinis (D.Don) Seidenf.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus aliformis (C.Schweinf.) Renz & Vodonaivalu	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus aristatus Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus australis (Gagnep.) Tang & F.T.Wang	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus banfieldii (F.M.Bailey) Lavarack	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus bismarckiensis (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus brachypyhllus A.Rich.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus brevicalcar Carr	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus brevilobus Thwaites	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus bulleyi (Rolfe) K.Y.Lang	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus calcaratus (Rolfe) S.Y.Hu	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus carolinensis (Schltr.) Tuyama	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus chapaensis (Gagnep.) Seidenf.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus chlorandrellus D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus ciliatus Carr	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus ciliolatus J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus citrinus (Thouars) Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus coeloceras Finet	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus commersonianus Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus constrictus (Lindl.) Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus copelandii (Ames) Carr	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus cryptostylus (Rchb.f.) Ormerod	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus cubitalis (L.) Kraenzl.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus cymbochilus Renz	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus densus (Lindl.) Santapau & Kapadia	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus djampangensis J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus dolichocaulon (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus duthiei (Hook.f.) Deva & H.B.Naithani	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus elbertii J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus elisabethae (Duthie) R.K.Gupta	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus fallax Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus flexuosus (Thouars) S.Moore	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus forceps Finet	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus formosanus (Schltr.) T.P.Lin	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus forrestii (Schltr.) K.Y.Lang	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus gardneri (Hook.f.) Kraenzl.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus goodyeroides (D.Don) Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus gracilis Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus grandis Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus hallieri J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus hamiltonianus (Lindl.) Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus hatusimanus T.Hashim.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus holochila (Hillebr.) N.Hallé	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus holttumianus Seidenf. ex Aver.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus holttumii Seidenf.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus jinchuanicus K.Y.Lang	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus kerrii Seidenf.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus kinabaluensis Carr	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus korinchensis Ridl.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus kumaonensis Renz	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus lacertifer (Lindl.) J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus lancifolius A.Rich.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus latilobus J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus lawii Wight	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus listeroides (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus lombokensis J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus macer (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus maculifer (C.Schweinf.) Renz & Vodonaivalu	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus maingayi (King & Pantl.) J.J.Wood & Ormerod	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus mannii (Rchb.f.) Mukerjee	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus minimiflorus (Kraenzl.) N.Hallé	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus monticola (Ridl.) Seidenf.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus mucronatus J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus nanus (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus nematocaulon (Hook.f.) Banerji & P.Pradhan	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus neotineoides (Ames & Schltr.) K.Y.Lang	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus novoebudarum F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus nymanianus Kraenzl.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus ovariophorus (Schltr.) Carr	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus pachyneuroides Renz	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus pachyneurus (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus palawensis (Tuyama) Tuyama	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus parishii Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus plantagineus (Lindl.) Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus prainii (Hook.f.) Kraenzl.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus pseudophrys (King & Pantl.) Kraenzl.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus richardianus Wight	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus rindjaniensis J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus saprophyticus (Rolfe ex Downie) Ormerod	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus secundus (Lindl.) Rathakr.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus setifer Tuyama	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus silvicola (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus societatis (Drake) N.Hallé	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus spathulatus J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus spiralis A.Rich.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus staminodiatus J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus stenodon (Rchb.f.) Kores	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus subaphyllus (Gagnep.) Seidenf.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus superanthus J.J.Wood	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus tentaculatus (Lindl.) J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus timorensis (Ridl.) J.J.Wood & Ormerod	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus tobensis J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus tradescantifolius (Rchb.f.) Kores	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus triaena (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus tricallosus J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus trimenii (Hook.f.) Abeyw.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus umbonatus (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus unguiculatus J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus wheatleyi P.J.Cribb & B.A.Lewis	Accepted		WCSP
Peristylus whistleri P.J.Cribb	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 199 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Peristylus. Of these 100 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 15 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Peristylus. 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 199 species names for the genus Peristylus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	100	50.3%
◕	Synonym	96	48.2%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.5%
◕	Unassessed	2	1.0%

All names

The status of the 214 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Peristylus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	102	47.7%
◕	Synonym	108	50.5%
◕	Unplaced	2	0.9%
◕	Unassessed	2	0.9%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 199 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Peristylus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	99	85	0	0	184	92.5%
	Medium confidence	0	8	0	0	8	4.0%
	Low confidence	1	3	1	2	7	3.5%

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