The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Rheum

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Rheum

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Rheum acuminatum Hook. f. & Thomson Accepted M TRO
Rheum alexandrae Batalin Accepted M TRO
Rheum altaicum Losinsk. Accepted M TRO
Rheum australe D. Don Accepted M TRO
Rheum compactum L. Accepted M TRO
Rheum delavayi Franch. Accepted M TRO
Rheum forrestii Diels Accepted M TRO
Rheum glabricaule Sam. Accepted M TRO
Rheum globulosum Gage Accepted M TRO
Rheum hotaoense C.Y. Cheng & T.C. Kao Accepted M TRO
Rheum × hybridum Murray Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Rheum inopinatum Prain Accepted M TRO
Rheum kialense Franch. Accepted M TRO
Rheum laciniatum Prain Accepted M TRO
Rheum lhasaense A.J. Li & P.G. Xiao Accepted M TRO
Rheum likiangense Sam. Accepted M TRO
Rheum lucidum Losinsk. Accepted M TRO
Rheum macrocarpum Losinsk. Accepted M TRO
Rheum maculatum C.Y. Cheng & T.C. Kao Accepted M TRO
Rheum nanum Siev. ex Pall. Accepted M TRO
Rheum nobile Hook. f. & Thomson Accepted M TRO
Rheum officinale Baill. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Rheum palmatum L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Rheum przewalskyi Losinsk. Accepted M TRO
Rheum pumilum Maxim. Accepted M TRO
Rheum racemiferum Maxim. Accepted M TRO
Rheum rhabarbarum L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Rheum rhaponticum L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Rheum rhizostachyum Schrenk Accepted M TRO
Rheum rhomboideum Losinsk. Accepted M TRO
Rheum spiciforme Royle Accepted M TRO
Rheum subacaule Sam. Accepted M TRO
Rheum sublanceolatum C.Y. Cheng & T.C. Kao Accepted M TRO
Rheum tanguticum Maxim. ex Balf. Accepted M TRO
Rheum tataricum L.f. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Rheum tibeticum Maxim. ex Hook. f. Accepted M TRO
Rheum turkestanicum Janisch. Accepted M TRO
Rheum uninerve Maxim. Accepted M TRO
Rheum webbianum Royle Accepted M TRO
Rheum wittrockii C.E. Lundstr. Accepted M TRO
Rheum yunnanense Sam. Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 114 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Rheum. Of these 41 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 7 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Rheum. 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 114 species names for the genus Rheum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 41 36.0%
Synonym 36 31.6%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 37 32.5%

All names

The status of the 121 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Rheum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 42 34.7%
Synonym 42 34.7%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 37 30.6%

The confidence with which the status of the 114 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Rheum, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 41 33 0 0 74 64.9%
Low confidence 0 3 0 37 40 35.1%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 35 34 0 2 0 71 62.3%
WCSP (in review) 6 2 0 35 0 43 37.7%