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The genus Empetrum is in the family Ericaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Empetrum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Empetrum eamesii Fernald & Wiegand	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23	1
Empetrum erectum Loefl.	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Empetrum nigrum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23	11
Empetrum rubrum Vahl ex Willd.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23	1

Statistics

The Plant List includes 28 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Empetrum. Of these 3 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 37 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Empetrum. 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 28 species names for the genus Empetrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3	10.7%
◕	Synonym	22	78.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	10.7%

All names

The status of the 65 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Empetrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	12	18.5%
◕	Synonym	46	70.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	7	10.8%

The confidence with which the status of the 28 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Empetrum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	3	22	0	0	25	89.3%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	3	3	10.7%

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