The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Nasturtium

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Nasturtium

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Nasturtium africanum Braun-Blanq. Accepted M TRO
Nasturtium floridanum (Al-Shehbaz & Rollins) Al-Shehbaz & R.A. Price Accepted M TRO
Nasturtium gambelii (S. Watson) O.E. Schulz Accepted M TRO
Nasturtium groenlandicum (Hornem.) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Nasturtium microphyllum (Boenn. ex Rchb.) Rchb. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Nasturtium officinale R.Br. Accepted L WCSP (in review)
Nasturtium sordidum (A. Gray) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Nasturtium × sterile (Airy Shaw) Oefelein Accepted M WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 335 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Nasturtium. Of these 8 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 40 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Nasturtium. 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 335 species names for the genus Nasturtium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 8 2.4%
Synonym 239 71.3%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 88 26.3%

All names

The status of the 375 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Nasturtium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 8 2.1%
Synonym 279 74.4%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 88 23.5%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 335 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Nasturtium, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 7 219 0 0 226 67.5%
Low confidence 1 20 0 88 109 32.5%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 5 179 0 0 0 184 54.9%
WCSP (in review) 3 60 0 88 0 151 45.1%