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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Gleditsia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Gleditsia amorphoides (Griseb.) Taub.	Accepted		ILDIS
Gleditsia aquatica Marshall	Accepted		ILDIS
Gleditsia assamica Bor	Accepted		ILDIS
Gleditsia australis F.B.Forbes & Hemsl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Gleditsia caspia Desf.	Accepted		ILDIS
Gleditsia delavayi Franch.	Accepted		ILDIS
Gleditsia fera (Lour.) Merr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Gleditsia ferox Desf.	Accepted		ILDIS
Gleditsia japonica Miq.	Accepted		ILDIS
Gleditsia macracantha Desf.	Accepted		ILDIS
Gleditsia microphylla Isely	Accepted		ILDIS
Gleditsia pachycarpa Gagnep.	Accepted		ILDIS
Gleditsia sinensis Lam.	Accepted		ILDIS
Gleditsia texana Sarg.	Accepted		ILDIS
Gleditsia triacanthos L.	Accepted		ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 70 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Gleditsia. Of these 15 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 42 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Gleditsia. 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 70 species names for the genus Gleditsia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	15	21.4%
◕	Synonym	50	71.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	5	7.1%

All names

The status of the 112 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Gleditsia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	20	17.9%
◕	Synonym	87	77.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	5	4.5%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as a spelling variant

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

The confidence with which the status of the 70 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Gleditsia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	13	33	0	0	46	65.7%
	Medium confidence	0	15	0	0	15	21.4%
	Low confidence	2	2	0	5	9	12.9%

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