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Myriophyllum

The genus Myriophyllum is in the family Haloragaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Myriophyllum

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Myriophyllum alterniflorum DC. Accepted M TRO
Myriophyllum aquaticum (Vell.) Verdc. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Myriophyllum dicoccum F. Muell. Accepted M TRO
Myriophyllum exasperatum D. Wang, Dan Yu & Z.Y. Li Accepted M TRO
Myriophyllum farwellii Morong Accepted M TRO
Myriophyllum heterophyllum Michx. Accepted M TRO
Myriophyllum hippuroides Nutt. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Myriophyllum humile (Raf.) Morong Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Myriophyllum mattogrossensis Hoehne Accepted M TRO
Myriophyllum oguraense Miki Accepted M TRO
Myriophyllum pinnatum (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Myriophyllum propinquum A. Cunn. Accepted M TRO
Myriophyllum quitense Kunth Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Myriophyllum sibiricum Kom. Accepted M TRO
Myriophyllum spicatum L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Myriophyllum tetrandrum Roxb. Accepted M TRO
Myriophyllum tuberculatum Roxb. Accepted M TRO
Myriophyllum ussuriense Maxim. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Myriophyllum verticillatum L. Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 106 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Myriophyllum. Of these 19 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 18 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Myriophyllum. 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 106 species names for the genus Myriophyllum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 19 17.9%
Synonym 18 17.0%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 69 65.1%

All names

The status of the 124 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Myriophyllum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 21 16.9%
Synonym 34 27.4%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 69 55.6%

The confidence with which the status of the 106 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Myriophyllum, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 19 18 0 0 37 34.9%
Low confidence 0 0 0 69 69 65.1%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 12 14 0 1 0 27 25.5%
WCSP (in review) 7 4 0 68 0 79 74.5%