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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Brachystegia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Brachystegia allenii Burtt Davy & Hutch.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia angustistipulata De Wild.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia bakeriana Burtt Davy & Hutch.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia bequaertii De Wild.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia boehmii Taub.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia bussei Harms	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia cynometroides Harms	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia eurycoma Harms	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia floribunda Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia glaberrima R.E.Fr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia glaucescens Burtt Davy & Hutch.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia gossweileri Burtt Davy & Hutch.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia kalongensis De Wild.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia kennedyi Hoyle	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia laurentii (De Wild.) Hoyle	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia leonensis Burtt Davy & Hutch.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia longifolia Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia luishiensis De Wild.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia lujae De Wild.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia manga De Wild.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia microphylla Harms	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia mildbraedii Harms	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia nigerica Hoyle & A.P.D.Jones	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia puberula Burtt Davy & Hutch.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia russelliae I.M.Johnst.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia spiciformis Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia stipulata De Wild.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia subfalcato-foliolata De Wild.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia tamarindoides Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia taxifolia Harms	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia torrei Hoyle	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia utilis Burtt Davy & Hutch.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia wangermeeana De Wild.	Accepted		ILDIS
Brachystegia zenkeri Harms	Accepted		ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 92 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Brachystegia. Of these 34 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 7 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Brachystegia. 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 92 species names for the genus Brachystegia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	34	37.0%
◕	Synonym	12	13.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	46	50.0%

All names

The status of the 99 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Brachystegia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	40	40.4%
◕	Synonym	13	13.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	46	46.5%

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 92 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Brachystegia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	28	3	0	0	31	33.7%
	Medium confidence	0	9	0	0	9	9.8%
	Low confidence	6	0	0	46	52	56.5%

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