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The genus Pueraria is in the family Leguminosae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pueraria

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Pueraria alopecuroides Craib	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Pueraria bella Prain	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Pueraria bouffordii H. Ohashi	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pueraria calycina Franch.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Pueraria candollei Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14	1
Pueraria candollii Wall.	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Pueraria chaneti H. Lév.	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Pueraria composita Graham	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Pueraria edulis Pamp.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Pueraria garhwalensis L.R.Dangwal & D.S.Rawat	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Pueraria imbricata Maesen	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Pueraria lacei Craib	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Pueraria maclurei (F.P. Metcalf) F.J. Herm.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14	3
Pueraria peduncularis (Benth.) Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Pueraria phaseoloides (Roxb.) Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14	2
Pueraria pulcherrima (Koord.) Koord.-Schum.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Pueraria pulcherrima (Koord.) Merr. ex Koorders-Schumacher	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Pueraria sikkimensis Prain	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Pueraria stracheyi Baker	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Pueraria stricta Kurz	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Pueraria tuberosa (Willd.) DC.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Pueraria wallichii DC.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Pueraria xyzhuii H. Ohashi & Iokawa	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18

Statistics

The Plant List includes 95 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pueraria. Of these 20 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 20 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pueraria. 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 95 species names for the genus Pueraria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	20	21.1%
◕	Synonym	71	74.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	4	4.2%

All names

The status of the 115 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pueraria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	26	22.6%
◕	Synonym	85	73.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	4	3.5%

Of the species names,

• 2 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 2 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 95 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pueraria, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	15	67	0	0	82	86.3%
	Medium confidence	3	3	0	0	6	6.3%
	Low confidence	2	1	0	4	7	7.4%

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