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The genus Elodea is in the family Hydrocharitaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Elodea

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Elodea bifoliata H.St.John	Accepted		WCSP
Elodea callitrichoides (Rich.) Casp.	Accepted		WCSP
Elodea canadensis Michx.	Accepted		WCSP
Elodea granatensis Humb. & Bonpl.	Accepted		WCSP
Elodea nuttallii (Planch.) H.St.John	Accepted		WCSP
Elodea potamogeton (Bertero) Espinosa	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 36 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Elodea. Of these 6 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 6 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Elodea. 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 36 species names for the genus Elodea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	16.7%
◕	Synonym	29	80.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	2.8%

All names

The status of the 42 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Elodea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	14.3%
◕	Synonym	35	83.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	2.4%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 36 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Elodea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	6	27	0	0	33	91.7%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	5.6%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	1	1	2.8%

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