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The genus Butia is in the family Arecaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Butia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Butia archeri (Glassman) Glassman	Accepted		WCSP
Butia campicola (Barb.Rodr.) Noblick	Accepted		WCSP
Butia capitata (Mart.) Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Butia eriospatha (Mart. ex Drude) Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Butia exospadix Noblick	Accepted		WCSP
Butia lallemantii Deble & Marchiori	Accepted		WCSP
Butia leptospatha (Burret) Noblick	Accepted		WCSP
Butia marmorii Noblick	Accepted		WCSP
Butia microspadix Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Butia paraguayensis (Barb.Rodr.) L.H.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP
Butia purpurascens Glassman	Accepted		WCSP
Butia stolonifera (Barb.Rodr.) Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Butia yatay (Mart.) Becc.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 27 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Butia. Of these 13 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 15 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Butia. 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 27 species names for the genus Butia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	13	48.1%
◕	Synonym	13	48.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	3.7%

All names

The status of the 42 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Butia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	13	31.0%
◕	Synonym	28	66.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	2.4%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid

The confidence with which the status of the 27 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Butia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	13	12	0	0	25	92.6%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	3.7%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	1	1	3.7%

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