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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Spergularia

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Spergularia aberrans I.M. Johnst.	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia andina Rohrb.	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia arbuscula (Gay) I.M.Johnst.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia australis (Samp.) Ratter	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia azorica (Kindb.) Lebel	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia bocconei (Scheele) Asch. & Graebn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia bracteata (B.L. Rob.) A. Nelson & J.F. Macbr.	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia canadensis (Pers.) G. Don	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia capillacea (Kindb. & Lange) Willk.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia collina I.M. Johnst.	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia confertiflora Steud.	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia congestifolia I.M. Johnst.	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia cremnophila I.M. Johnst.	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia denticulata Phil.	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia depauperata (Naudin) Rohrb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia diandra (Guss.) Heldr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia echinosperma (Celak.) Asch. & Graebn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia fasiculata Phil.	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia fimbriata Boiss. & Reut.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia floribunda Rohrb.	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia heldreichii Foucaud ex E.Simon & P.Monnier	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia lycia P.Monnier & Quézel	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia macrorrhiza (Req. ex Loisel.) Heynh.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia macrotheca (Hornem. ex Cham. & Schltdl.) Heynh.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia marina (L.) Besser	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia media (L.) C.Presl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia microsperma Asch.	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia nicaeensis Sarato ex Burnat	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia pazensis (Rusby) Rossbach	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia platensis (Cambess.) Fenzl	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia purpurea (Pers.) G.Don	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia pycnantha Rossbach	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia rubra (L.) J.Presl & C.Presl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia rupestris Cambess.	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia rupicola Lebel	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia segetalis (L.) G.Don	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia sparsiflora (Greene) A. Nelson	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia sperguloides Heynh.	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia spruceana R. Rossbach	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia squarrosa Muschl.	Accepted		TRO
Spergularia stenocarpa (Phil.) I.M.Johnst.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Spergularia tangerina P.Monnier	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 189 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Spergularia. Of these 42 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 16 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Spergularia. 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 189 species names for the genus Spergularia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	42	22.2%
◕	Synonym	34	18.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	113	59.8%

All names

The status of the 205 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Spergularia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	43	21.0%
◕	Synonym	48	23.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	114	55.6%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 189 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Spergularia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	41	32	0	0	73	38.6%
	Low confidence	1	2	0	113	116	61.4%

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