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The genus Empetrum is in the family Ericaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Empetrum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Empetrum asiaticum Nakai ex H. Itô	Accepted		TRO
Empetrum eamesii Fernald & Wiegand	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Empetrum nigrum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Empetrum rubrum Vahl ex Willd.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 32 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Empetrum. Of these 4 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 32 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Empetrum. 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 32 species names for the genus Empetrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	4	12.5%
◕	Synonym	23	71.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	5	15.6%

All names

The status of the 64 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Empetrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	14	21.9%
◕	Synonym	41	64.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	9	14.1%

The confidence with which the status of the 32 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Empetrum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	4	22	0	0	26	81.3%
	Low confidence	0	1	0	5	6	18.8%

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