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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
Whitfieldia elongata (P.Beauv.) De Wild. & T.Durand	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Whitfieldia liebrechtsiana De Wild. & T.Durand	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Whitfieldia preussii (Lindau) C.B. Clarke	Accepted		TRO
Whitfieldia stuhlmannii (Lindau) C.B. Clarke	Accepted		TRO
Whitfieldia thollonii R. Benoist	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 24 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Whitfieldia. Of these 5 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 24 species names for the genus Whitfieldia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5	20.8%
◕	Synonym	7	29.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	12	50.0%

All names

The status of the 25 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Whitfieldia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5	20.0%
◕	Synonym	8	32.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	12	48.0%

The confidence with which the status of the 24 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	4	7	0	0	11	45.8%
	Low confidence	1	0	0	12	13	54.2%

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