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Lactuca

The genus Lactuca is in the family Compositae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Lactuca

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Lactuca acanthifolia (Willd.) Boiss. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca acuminata Spreng. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca adenophora Boiss. & Kotschy Accepted M TICA
Lactuca alpestris (Gand.) Rech.f. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca alpina (L.) A.Gray Accepted M TICA
Lactuca ambacensis (Hiern) C.Jeffrey Accepted M TICA
Lactuca attenuata Stebbins Accepted M TICA
Lactuca aurea Stebbins Accepted M TICA
Lactuca biennis (Moench) Fernald Accepted M TICA
Lactuca boissieri Rouy Accepted M TICA
Lactuca bourgaei (Boiss.) Irish & Taylor Accepted L TICA
Lactuca calophylla C.Jeffrey Accepted M TICA
Lactuca canadensis L. Accepted L TICA
Lactuca cichorioides (Hiern) C.Jeffrey Accepted M TICA
Lactuca corymbosa Lawalrée Accepted M TICA
Lactuca crambifolia (Bunge) Boiss. Accepted L TICA
Lactuca cubanguensis (S.Moore) C.Jeffrey Accepted M TICA
Lactuca cyprica (Rech.f.) N.Kilian & Greuter Accepted M TICA
Lactuca deltoidea (M.Bieb.) DC. ex C.A.Mey. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca denticulata (Houtt.) Maxim. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca dissecta D.Don Accepted M TICA
Lactuca dolichophylla Kitam. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca dregeana DC. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca dumicola (Hiern) S.Moore Accepted M TICA
Lactuca fenzlii N.Kilian & Greuter Accepted M TICA
Lactuca floridana (L.) Gaertn. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca georgica Grossh. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca glandulifera Hook.f. Accepted L TICA
Lactuca glareosa Boiss. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca glauciifolia Boiss. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca graciliflora Wall. ex DC. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca graminifolia Michx. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca haimanniana E.A.Durand & Barratte Accepted M TICA
Lactuca henryi Dunn Accepted M TICA
Lactuca hirsuta Muhl. ex Nutt. Accepted L TICA
Lactuca hispida DC. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca homblei De Wild. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca imbricata Hiern Accepted M TICA
Lactuca indica L. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca inermis Forssk. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca intricata Boiss. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca jamaicensis Griseb. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca kanitziana Martelli Accepted M TICA
Lactuca kochiana Beauverd Accepted M TICA
Lactuca lasiorhiza (O.Hoffm.) C.Jeffrey Accepted M TICA
Lactuca leucophaea A.Gray Accepted L TICA
Lactuca longespicata De Wild. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca ludoviciana (Nutt.) Riddell Accepted M TICA
Lactuca macrophylla (Willd.) A.Gray Accepted M TICA
Lactuca madatapensis (Gagnidze) N.Kilian & Greuter Accepted M TICA
Lactuca malaissei Lawalrée Accepted M TICA
Lactuca marschallii Stebbins Accepted M TICA
Lactuca marunguensis Lawalrée Accepted M TICA
Lactuca microcephala DC. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca mira Pavlov Accepted M TICA
Lactuca morssii B.L.Rob. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca mulgedioides (Vis. & Pančić) Boiss. & Kotschy ex Boiss. Accepted L TICA
Lactuca muralis (L.) Fresen. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca mwinilungensis G.V.Pope Accepted M TICA
Lactuca olgae (Leskov) N.Kilian & Greuter Accepted M TICA
Lactuca orientalis (Boiss.) Boiss. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca palmensis Bolle Accepted M TICA
Lactuca pancicii (Vis.) N.Kilian & Greuter Accepted M TICA
Lactuca paradoxa Sch.Bip. ex A.Rich. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca parishii Craib Accepted M TICA
Lactuca perennis L. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca persica Boiss. Accepted L TICA
Lactuca petrensis Hiern Accepted M TICA
Lactuca plumieri (L.) Gren. & Godr. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca polyclada Boiss. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca praecox R.E.Fr. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca praevia C.D.Adams Accepted M TICA
Lactuca pulchella (Pursh) DC. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca quercina L. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca racemosa Willd. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca raddeana Maxim. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca rechingeriana (Tuisl) N.Kilian & Greuter Accepted M TICA
Lactuca repens (L.) Benth. & Hook.f. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca reviersii Litard. & Maire Accepted M TICA
Lactuca roborowskii Maxim. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca rostrata (Blume) Boerl. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca rosularis Boiss. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca saligna L. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca sativa L. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca schulzeana Büttner Accepted M TICA
Lactuca schweinfurthii Oliv. & Hiern Accepted M TICA
Lactuca serriola L. Accepted L TICA
Lactuca setosa Stebbins ex C.Jeffrey Accepted M TICA
Lactuca sibirica Benth. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca singularis Wilmott Accepted M TICA
Lactuca songeensis C.Jeffrey Accepted M TICA
Lactuca sororia Miq. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca spinidens Nevski Accepted M TICA
Lactuca stebbinsii N.Kilian Accepted M TICA
Lactuca stelbinsiana N.Kilian Accepted L TICA
Lactuca stipulata Stebbins Accepted M TICA
Lactuca stolonifera (A. Gray) Maxim. Accepted M TRO
Lactuca takhtadzhianii Sosn. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca taraxacifolia Khalk. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca tenerrima Pourr. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca tetrantha B.L.Burtt & P.H.Davis Accepted M TICA
Lactuca tinctociliata I.M.Johnst. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca triangulata Maxim. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca triquetra (Labill.) Boiss. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca tuberosa Jacq. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca tysonii C.Jeffrey Accepted M TICA
Lactuca ugandensis C.Jeffrey Accepted M TICA
Lactuca undulata Ledeb. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca variabilis Bornm. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca viminea (L.) J.Presl & C.Presl Accepted M TICA
Lactuca virosa L. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca winkleri Kirp. Accepted M TICA
Lactuca zambeziaca C.Jeffrey Accepted M TICA

Statistics

The Plant List includes 578 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Lactuca. Of these 113 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 108 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Lactuca. 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 578 species names for the genus Lactuca recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 113 19.6%
Synonym 234 40.5%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 231 40.0%

All names

The status of the 686 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Lactuca recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 122 17.8%
Synonym 328 47.8%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 236 34.4%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 578 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Lactuca, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 103 198 0 0 301 52.1%
Low confidence 10 36 0 231 277 47.9%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
TICA 112 233 0 231 0 576 99.7%
Tropicos 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.3%