The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Glycyrrhiza

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Glycyrrhiza

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Glycyrrhiza acanthocarpa (Lindl.) J.M.Black Accepted H ILDIS
Glycyrrhiza aspera Pall. Accepted H ILDIS
Glycyrrhiza astragalina Hook. & Arn. Accepted H ILDIS
Glycyrrhiza bucharica Regel Accepted H ILDIS
Glycyrrhiza echinata L. Accepted H ILDIS
Glycyrrhiza eglandulosa X.Y.Li Accepted H ILDIS
Glycyrrhiza eurycarpa P.C.Li Accepted L ILDIS
Glycyrrhiza foetida Desf. Accepted H ILDIS
Glycyrrhiza foetidissima Tausch Accepted H ILDIS
Glycyrrhiza frearitis (Boiss.) Orph. ex Beck Accepted M TRO
Glycyrrhiza glabra L. Accepted H ILDIS
Glycyrrhiza gontscharovii Maslenn. Accepted H ILDIS
Glycyrrhiza iconica Hub.-Mor. Accepted H ILDIS
Glycyrrhiza inflata Batalin Accepted L ILDIS
Glycyrrhiza korshinskyi Grig. Accepted H ILDIS
Glycyrrhiza lepidota Pursh Accepted H ILDIS
Glycyrrhiza pallidiflora Maxim. Accepted H ILDIS
Glycyrrhiza squamulosa Franch. Accepted H ILDIS
Glycyrrhiza triphylla Fisch. & C.A.Mey. Accepted H ILDIS
Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch. Accepted H ILDIS
Glycyrrhiza yunnanensis P.C.Li Accepted L ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 79 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Glycyrrhiza. Of these 21 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 13 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Glycyrrhiza. 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 79 species names for the genus Glycyrrhiza recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 21 26.6%
Synonym 30 38.0%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 28 35.4%

All names

The status of the 92 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Glycyrrhiza recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 22 23.9%
Synonym 42 45.7%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 28 30.4%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 79 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Glycyrrhiza, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 17 21 0 0 38 48.1%
Medium confidence 1 7 0 0 8 10.1%
Low confidence 3 2 0 28 33 41.8%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
ILDIS 20 22 0 0 0 42 53.2%
Tropicos 1 8 0 3 0 12 15.2%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 25 0 25 31.6%