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The genus Poinsettia is in the family Euphorbiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Poinsettia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Poinsettia geniculata Small	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 33 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Poinsettia. Of these 1 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 4 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Poinsettia. 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 33 species names for the genus Poinsettia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1	3.0%
◕	Synonym	32	97.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 37 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Poinsettia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1	2.7%
◕	Synonym	36	97.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

The confidence with which the status of the 33 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Poinsettia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	31	0	0	31	93.9%
	Medium confidence	1	1	0	0	2	6.1%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

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