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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Hygrophila

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Hygrophila abyssinica (Nees) T.Anderson	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hygrophila acinos Heine	Accepted		TRO
Hygrophila africana (T. Anderson) Heine	Accepted		TRO
Hygrophila angolensis (S.Moore) Heine	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hygrophila auriculata (Schumach.) Heine	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hygrophila barbata (Nees) T. Anderson	Accepted		TRO
Hygrophila brevituba (Burkill) Heine	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hygrophila costata Nees	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hygrophila erecta (Burm.f.) Hochr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hygrophila gossweileri (S.Moore) Heine	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hygrophila gracillima Burkill	Accepted		TRO
Hygrophila homblei De Wild.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hygrophila limnophiloides (S.Moore) Heine	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hygrophila linearis Burkill	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hygrophila micrantha (Nees) T. Anderson	Accepted		TRO
Hygrophila odora (Nees) T.Anderson	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hygrophila pobeguinii Benoist	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hygrophila polysperma (Roxb.) T.Anderson	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hygrophila prunelloides Heine	Accepted		TRO
Hygrophila quadrivalvis (Buch.-Ham.) Nees	Accepted		TRO
Hygrophila radicans (Nees) Benoist	Accepted		TRO
Hygrophila ringens (L.) Steud.	Accepted		TRO
Hygrophila schulli (Buch.-Ham.) M.R.Almeida & S.M. Almeida	Accepted		TRO
Hygrophila senegalensis (Nees) T.Anderson	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hygrophila spiciformis Lindau	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hygrophila surinamensis Bremek.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hygrophila tyttha Leonard	Accepted		TRO
Hygrophila uliginosa S.Moore	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 161 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Hygrophila. Of these 28 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Hygrophila. 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 161 species names for the genus Hygrophila recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	28	17.4%
◕	Synonym	26	16.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	107	66.5%

All names

The status of the 163 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Hygrophila recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	28	17.2%
◕	Synonym	27	16.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	108	66.3%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 161 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Hygrophila, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	27	26	0	0	53	32.9%
	Low confidence	1	0	0	107	108	67.1%

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