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The genus Whitfieldia is in the family Acanthaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Whitfieldia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Whitfieldia arnoldiana De Wild. & T.Durand	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Whitfieldia brazzae (Baill.) C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Whitfieldia colorata C.B. Clarke ex Stapf	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Whitfieldia elongata (P.Beauv.) De Wild. & T.Durand	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Whitfieldia lateritia Hook.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Whitfieldia latiflos C.B.Clarke	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Whitfieldia laurentii (Lindau) C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Whitfieldia letestui Benoist	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Whitfieldia liebrechtsiana De Wild. & T.Durand	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Whitfieldia orientalis Vollesen	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Whitfieldia preussii (Lindau) C.B. Clarke	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Whitfieldia purpurata Heine	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Whitfieldia rutilans Heine	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Whitfieldia seretii De Wild.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Whitfieldia stuhlmannii (Lindau) C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Whitfieldia sylvatica De Wild.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Whitfieldia thollonii (Baill.) Benoist	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 33 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Whitfieldia. Of these 14 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Whitfieldia. 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 33 species names for the genus Whitfieldia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	14	42.4%
◕	Synonym	15	45.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	4	12.1%

All names

The status of the 34 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Whitfieldia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	14	41.2%
◕	Synonym	16	47.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	4	11.8%

Of the species names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid

The confidence with which the status of the 33 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Whitfieldia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	13	14	0	0	27	81.8%
	Low confidence	1	1	0	4	6	18.2%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Whitfieldia is as follows: