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The genus Beta is in the family Amaranthaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Beta

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Beta corolliflora Zosimovic ex Buttler	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Beta lomatogona Fisch. & C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Beta macrocarpa Guss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Beta macrorhiza Steven	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Beta nana Boiss. & Heldr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Beta palonga R.K.Basu & K.K.Mukh.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Beta patellaris Moq.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Beta patula Aiton	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Beta procumbens C.Sm. ex Hornem.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Beta trigyna Waldst. & Kit.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Beta vulgaris L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Beta webbiana Moq.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 59 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Beta. Of these 12 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 55 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Beta. 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 59 species names for the genus Beta recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	12	20.3%
◕	Synonym	41	69.5%
◕	Unplaced	5	8.5%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.7%

All names

The status of the 114 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Beta recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	14.0%
◕	Synonym	91	79.8%
◕	Unplaced	5	4.4%
◕	Unassessed	2	1.8%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 59 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Beta, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	12	40	0	0	52	88.1%
	Low confidence	0	1	5	1	7	11.9%

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