The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Scaevola

The genus Scaevola is in the family Goodeniaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Scaevola

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Scaevola frutescens (Mill.) Krause Accepted M TRO
Scaevola hainanensis Hance Accepted M TRO
Scaevola plumieri (L.) Vahl Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Scaevola taccada (Gaertn.) Roxb. Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 235 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Scaevola. Of these 4 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 3 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Scaevola. 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 235 species names for the genus Scaevola recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 4 1.7%
Synonym 21 8.9%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 210 89.4%

All names

The status of the 238 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Scaevola recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 5 2.1%
Synonym 23 9.7%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 210 88.2%

The confidence with which the status of the 235 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Scaevola, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 4 21 0 0 25 10.6%
Low confidence 0 0 0 210 210 89.4%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 3 20 0 2 0 25 10.6%
WCSP (in review) 1 1 0 208 0 210 89.4%