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The genus Pimenta is in the family Myrtaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pimenta

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Pimenta adenoclada (Urb.) Alain	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pimenta cainitoides (Urb.) Burret	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pimenta communis Lindl.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pimenta dioica (L.) Merr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pimenta ferruginea (Griseb.) Burret	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pimenta filipes (Urb.) Burret	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pimenta guatemalensis (Lundell) Lundell	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pimenta haitiensis (Urb.) Landrum	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pimenta jamaicensis (Britton & Harris) Proctor	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pimenta obscura Proctor	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pimenta odiolens (Urb.) Burret	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pimenta oligantha (Urb.) Burret	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pimenta podocarpoides (Areces) Landrum	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pimenta pseudocaryophyllus (Gomes) Landrum	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	2
Pimenta racemosa (Mill.) J.W.Moore	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	4
Pimenta richardii Proctor	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 134 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pimenta. Of these 16 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 32 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pimenta. 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 134 species names for the genus Pimenta recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	11.9%
◕	Synonym	118	88.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 166 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pimenta recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	22	13.3%
◕	Synonym	144	86.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of the species names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 9 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 134 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pimenta, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	15	112	0	0	127	94.8%
	Medium confidence	1	6	0	0	7	5.2%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

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