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The genus Pogostemon is in the family Lamiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pogostemon

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Pogostemon amaranthoides Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon andersonii (Prain) Panigrahi	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon aquaticus (C.H.Wright) Press	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon atropurpureus Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon auricularius (L.) Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon barbatus Bhoti & Ingr.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon benghalensis (Burm.f.) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon brachystachyus Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon brevicorollus Y.Z.Sun	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon cablin (Blanco) Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon championii Prain	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon chinensis C.Y.Wu & Y.C.Huang	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon crassicaulis (Benth.) Press	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon cristatus Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon cruciatus (Benth.) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon dasianus A.B.De & Mukerjee	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon deccanensis (Panigrahi) Press	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon dielsianus Dunn	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon elatispicatus Bhoti & Ingr.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon elsholtzioides Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon erectus (Dalzell) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon esquirolii (H.Lév.) C.Y.Wu & Y.C.Huang	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon falcatus (C.Y.Wu) C.Y.Wu & H.W.Li	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon formosanus Oliv.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon fraternus Miq.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon gardneri Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon glaber Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon glabratus Chermsir. ex Press	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon globulosus Phuong ex Suddee & A.J.Paton	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon griffithii Prain	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon hedgei V.S.Kumar & B.D.Sharma	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon helferi (Hook.f.) Press	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon heyneanus Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon hirsutus Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon hispidocalyx C.Y.Wu & Y.C.Huang	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon hispidus (Benth.) Prain	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon kachinensis (Mukerjee) Panigrahi	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon koehneanus (Muschl.) Press	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon linearis (Benth.) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon litigiosus Doan ex Suddee & A.J.Paton	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon lythroides (Diels) Press	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon macgregorii W.W.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon membranaceus Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon menthoides Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon micangensis G.Taylor	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon mollis Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon mutamba (Hiern) G.Taylor	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon myosuroides (Roth) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon nelsonii Doan ex Suddee & A.J.Paton	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon nepetoides Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon nigrescens Dunn	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon nilagiricus Gamble	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon paludosus Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon paniculatus (Willd.) Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon parviflorus Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon peethapushpum Pradeep	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon peguanus (Prain) Press	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon pentagonus (C.B.Clarke ex Hook.f.) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon petiolaris Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon philippinensis S.Moore	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon plectrantoides Desf.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon pressii Panigrahi	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon pubescens Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon pumilus (Graham) Press	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon purpurascens Dalzell	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon quadrifolius (Benth.) F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon reflexus Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon reticulatus Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon rogersii N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon rotundatus Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon rugosus (Hook.f.) El Gazzar & L.Watson	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon rupestris Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon salicifolius (Dalzell ex Hook.f.) El Gazzar & L.Watson	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon sampsonii (Hance) Press	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon septentrionalis C.Y.Wu & Y.C.Huang	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon speciosus Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon stellatus (Lour.) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon stocksii (Hook.f.) Press	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon strigosus (Benth.) Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon szemaoensis (C.Y.Wu & S.J.Hsuan) Press	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon tisserantii (Pellegr.) Bhoti & Ingr.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon travancoricus Bedd.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon trinervis Chermsir. ex Press	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon tuberculosus Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon velatus Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon vestitus Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon villosus (Roxb.) Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon wattii C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon wightii Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon williamsii Elmer	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon xanthiifolius C.Y.Wu & Y.C.Huang	Accepted		WCSP
Pogostemon yatabeanus (Makino) Press	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 130 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pogostemon. Of these 92 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 8 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pogostemon. 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 130 species names for the genus Pogostemon recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	92	70.8%
◕	Synonym	28	21.5%
◕	Unplaced	6	4.6%
◕	Unassessed	4	3.1%

All names

The status of the 138 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pogostemon recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	92	66.7%
◕	Synonym	36	26.1%
◕	Unplaced	6	4.3%
◕	Unassessed	4	2.9%

Of these names,

• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 130 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pogostemon, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	92	27	0	0	119	91.5%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	0.8%
	Low confidence	0	0	6	4	10	7.7%

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