The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Polycarpon

The genus Polycarpon is in the family Caryophyllaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Polycarpon

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Polycarpon apurense Kunth Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Polycarpon coquimbense Gereau & Martic. Accepted M TRO
Polycarpon polycarpoides (Biv.) Zodda Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Polycarpon prostratum (Forssk.) Asch. & Schweinf. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Polycarpon suffruticosum Griseb. Accepted M TRO
Polycarpon tetraphyllum (L.) L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Polycarpon urbanianum Muschl. Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 40 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Polycarpon. Of these 7 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 6 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Polycarpon. 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 40 species names for the genus Polycarpon recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 7 17.5%
Synonym 12 30.0%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 21 52.5%

All names

The status of the 46 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Polycarpon recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 10 21.7%
Synonym 15 32.6%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 21 45.7%

The confidence with which the status of the 40 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Polycarpon, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 7 12 0 0 19 47.5%
Low confidence 0 0 0 21 21 52.5%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 3 6 0 2 0 11 27.5%
WCSP (in review) 4 6 0 19 0 29 72.5%