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The genus Persicaria is in the family Polygonaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

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Species in Persicaria

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Persicaria acuminata (Kunth) M.Gómez	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria alpina (All.) H.Gross	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria amplexicaulis (D.Don) Ronse Decr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria arcuata (Greene) Greene	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria arifolia (L.) Haraldson	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria attenuata (R. Br.) Soják	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria barbata (L.) H. Hara	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria bicornis (Raf.) Nieuwl.	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria bistorta (L.) Samp.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria bungeana (Turcz.) Nakai	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria caespitosa (Blume) Nakai	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria campanulata (Hook.f.) Ronse Decr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria chinensis (L.) H. Gross	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria cliopolitana (Hance) Yonekura & H. Ohashi	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria decipiens (R.Br.) K.L.Wilson	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria dichotoma (Blume) Masam.	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria dubia (Stein ex A. Br.) Fourr.	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria ferruginea (Wedd.) Soják	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria foliosa (H.Lindb.) Kitag.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria glabra (Willd.) M.Gómez	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria glandulopilosa (De Wild.) Soják	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria glomerata (Dammer) S.Ortiz & Paiva	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria hirsuta (Walter) Small	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria hispida (Kunth) M.Gómez	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria hybrida (Chaub.) Soják	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Delarbre	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria hydropiperoides (Michx.) Small	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria hystricula (J.Schust.) Soják	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria jucunda (Meisn.) Yonekura & H. Ohashi	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria lanigera (R.Br.) Soják	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria lapathifolia (L.) Delarbre	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria laxmannii (Lepech.) H.Gross	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria limbata (Meisn.) H.Hara	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria longiseta (Bruijn) Kitag.	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria maculata (Raf.) Gray	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria maculosa Gray	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria madagascariensis (Meisn.) S.Ortiz & Paiva	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria meisneriana (Cham. & Schltdl.) M. Gómez	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria minor (Huds.) Opiz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria mitis (Schrank) Holub	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria nepalensis (Meisn.) Miyabe	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria nogueirae S.Ortiz & Paiva	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria orientalis (L.) Spach	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria paraguayensis (Wedd.) S.T. Kim & Donoghue	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria pensylvanica (L.) M. Gómez	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria perfoliata (L.) H. Gross	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria poiretii (Meisn.) K.L. Wilson	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria pulchra (Blume) Soják	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria punctata (Elliott) Small	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria robustior (Small) E.P. Bicknell	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria sagittata (L.) H.Gross	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria segetum (Kunth) Small	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria senegalensis (Meisn.) Soják	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria serrulata (Lag.) Webb & Moq.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria setacea (Baldwin) Small	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria setosula (A.Rich.) K.L.Wilson	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria sinuata (Royle ex Bab.) Rajbh. & R.Joshi	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria stagnina (Buch.-Ham. ex Meisn.) Qaiser	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria strigosa (R.Br.) Nakai	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria tenella (Blume) H. Hara	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria tinctoria (Aiton) H.Gross	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria virginiana (L.) Gaertn.	Accepted		TRO
Persicaria vivipara (L.) Ronse Decr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Persicaria wallichii Greuter & Burdet	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 354 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Persicaria. Of these 66 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 59 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Persicaria. 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 354 species names for the genus Persicaria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	66	18.6%
◕	Synonym	130	36.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	158	44.6%

All names

The status of the 413 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Persicaria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	70	16.9%
◕	Synonym	181	43.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	162	39.2%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 354 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Persicaria, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	63	122	0	0	185	52.3%
	Low confidence	3	8	0	158	169	47.7%

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