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The genus Descurainia is in the family Brassicaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Descurainia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Descurainia adpressa Boelcke	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia altoandina Romanczuk	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia antarctica (E.Fourn.) O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia appendiculata (Griseb.) O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia argentea O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia argentina O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia artemisioides Svent.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia athrocarpa (A.Gray) O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia bartschii O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia bourgaeana (E.Fourn.) Webb ex O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia bourgeauana (E. Fourn.) O.E. Schulz	Accepted		TRO
Descurainia brevifructa Boelcke ex J.B.Martínez	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia californica (A.Gray) O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia cumingiana (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Prantl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia depressa (Phil.) Reiche	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia erodiifolia (Phil.) Reiche	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia gilva Svent.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia glaucescens (Phil.) Reiche	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia gonzalezii Svent.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia hartwegiana (E.Fourn.) Britton	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia heterotricha Speg.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia impatiens (Cham. & Schltdl.) O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia incana (Bernh. ex Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Dorn	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia kenheilii Al-Shehbaz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia kochii (Asch.) O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia lasisiliqua O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia lemsii Bramwell	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia leptoclada Muschl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia millefolia (Jacq.) Webb & Berthel.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia myriophylla (Willd.) R.E.Fr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia nana Romanczuk	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia nuttallii (Colla) O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia obtusa (Greene) O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia paradisa (A.Nelson & P.B.Kenn.) O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia perkinsiana Muschl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia pimpinellifolia (Barnéoud) O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia pinnata (Walter) Britton	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia preauxiana (Webb) Webb ex O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia ramosissima Rollins	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia sophia (L.) Webb ex Prantl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia sophioides (Fisch. ex Hook.) O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia streptocarpa (E.Fourn.) O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia stricta (Phil.) Reiche	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia titicacensis (Walp.) Lillo ex Hauman & Irigoyen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia torulosa Rollins	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Descurainia virletii (E.Fourn.) O.E.Schulz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 92 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Descurainia. Of these 46 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 108 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Descurainia. 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 92 species names for the genus Descurainia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	46	50.0%
◕	Synonym	35	38.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	11	12.0%

All names

The status of the 200 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Descurainia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	69	34.5%
◕	Synonym	114	57.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	17	8.5%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 92 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Descurainia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	46	34	0	0	80	87.0%
	Low confidence	0	1	0	11	12	13.0%

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