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The genus Arachis is in the family Leguminosae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Arachis

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Arachis angustifolia (Chodat & Hassl.) Killip ex Hoehne	Accepted		TRO
Arachis appressipila Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis archeri Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis batizocoi Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis benensis Krapov. & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis benthamii Handro	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis brevipetiolata Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis burchellii Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis burkartii Handro	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis cardenasii Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis chiquitana Krapov. & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis correntina (Burkart) Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis cruziana Krapov. & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis cryptopotamica Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis dardani Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis decora Krapov. & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis diogoi Hoehne	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis douradiana Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis duranensis Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis giacomettii Krapov. & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis glabrata Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis glandulifera Stalker	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis gracilis Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis guaranitica Chodat & Hassl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis hassleri Krapov., Valls & C.E. Simpson	Accepted		TRO
Arachis hatschbachii Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis helodes Krapov. & Rigoni	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis hermannii Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis herzogii Krapov. & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis hoehnei Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis hypogaea L.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis ipaensis Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis kempff-mercadoi Krapov. & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis kretschmeri Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis kuhlmannii Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis lignosa (Chodat & Hassl.) Krapov. & W.C	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis lutescens Krapov. & Rigoni	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis macedoi Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis magna Krapov. & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis major Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis marginata Gardner	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis martii Handro	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis matiensis Krapov. & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis microsperma Krapov. & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis monticola Krapov. & Rigoni	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis nitida Valls, Krapov. & C.E.Simpson	Accepted		TRO
Arachis oteroi Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis palustris Krapov. & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis paraguariensis Chodat & Hassl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis pflugeae C.E. Simpson, Krapov. & Valls	Accepted		TRO
Arachis pietrarellii Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis pintoi Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis praecox Krapov. & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis prostrata Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis pseudovillosa (Chodat & Hassl.) Krapov. & W.C	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis pusilla Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis repens Handro	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis retusa Krapov. & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis rigonii Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis schininii Krapov., Valls & C.E.Simpson	Accepted		TRO
Arachis setinervosa Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis simpsonii Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis stenophylla Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis stenosperma Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis subcoriacea Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis sylvestris (A.Chev.) A.Chev.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis trinitensis Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis triseminata Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis tuberosa Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis valida Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis vallsii Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis villosa Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis villosulicarpa Hoehne	Accepted		ILDIS
Arachis williamsii Krapov. & W.C.Greg.	Accepted		ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 97 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Arachis. Of these 74 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 29 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Arachis. 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 97 species names for the genus Arachis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	74	76.3%
◕	Synonym	10	10.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	13	13.4%

All names

The status of the 126 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Arachis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	78	61.9%
◕	Synonym	35	27.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	13	10.3%

A further 6 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 97 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Arachis, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	69	8	0	0	77	79.4%
	Medium confidence	3	2	0	0	5	5.2%
	Low confidence	2	0	0	13	15	15.5%

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