The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Niphaea

The genus Niphaea is in the family Gesneriaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Niphaea

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Niphaea mexicana C.V.Morton Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Niphaea oblonga Lindl. Accepted M WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 22 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Niphaea. Of these 2 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Niphaea. 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 22 species names for the genus Niphaea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 2 9.1%
Synonym 6 27.3%
Unplaced 1 4.5%
Unassessed 13 59.1%

All names

The status of the 23 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Niphaea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 2 8.7%
Synonym 7 30.4%
Unplaced 1 4.3%
Unassessed 13 56.5%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 22 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Niphaea, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 2 6 0 0 8 36.4%
Low confidence 0 0 1 13 14 63.6%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 3 0 1 0 4 18.2%
WCSP (in review) 2 3 1 12 0 18 81.8%