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The genus Elatine is in the family Elatinaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Elatine

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Elatine alsinastrum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine ambigua Wight	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine americana (Pursh) Arn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine brachysperma A.Gray	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine brochonii Clavaud	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine californica A.Gray	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine ecuadoriensis Molau	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine fassettiana Steyerm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine fauquei Monod	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine glaziovii Nied.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine gratioloides A.Cunn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine heterandra H.Mason	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine hexandra (Lapierre) DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine hungarica Moesz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine hydropiper L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine lindbergii Rohrb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine lorentziana Hunz.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine macrocalyx Albr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine macropoda Guss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine madagascariensis H.Perrier	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine minima (Nutt.) Fisch. & C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine ojibwayensis Garneau	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine paramoana Schmidt-M. & Bernal	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine peruviana Baehni & J.F.Macbr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine rubella Rydb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Elatine triandra Schkuhr	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 74 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Elatine. Of these 26 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 35 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Elatine. 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 74 species names for the genus Elatine recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	26	35.1%
◕	Synonym	45	60.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	4.1%

All names

The status of the 109 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Elatine recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	26	23.9%
◕	Synonym	80	73.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	2.8%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 74 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Elatine, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	26	45	0	0	71	95.9%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	3	3	4.1%

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