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The genus Crescentia is in the family Bignoniaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Crescentia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Crescentia alata Kunth	Accepted		iPlants
Crescentia amazonica Ducke	Accepted		iPlants
Crescentia cujete L.	Accepted		iPlants
Crescentia linearifolia Miers	Accepted		iPlants
Crescentia mirabilis Ekman ex Urb.	Accepted		iPlants
Crescentia portoricensis Britton	Accepted		iPlants

Statistics

The Plant List includes 45 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Crescentia. Of these 6 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Crescentia. 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 45 species names for the genus Crescentia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	13.3%
◕	Synonym	35	77.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	4	8.9%

All names

The status of the 47 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Crescentia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	12.8%
◕	Synonym	37	78.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	4	8.5%

Of these names,

• 5 are recorded as invalid
• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 45 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Crescentia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	6	33	0	0	39	86.7%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	4.4%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	4	4	8.9%

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