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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Lespedeza

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Lespedeza angustifolia (Pursh) Elliott	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza bicolor Turcz.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza buergeri Miq.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza capitata Michx.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza caraganae Bunge	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza chinensis G.Don	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza cyrtobotrya Miq.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza cyrtobuergeri Akiyama & H.Ohba	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza davidii Franch.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza davurica (Laxm.) Schindl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza dunnii Schindl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza elegans Cambess.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza elliptica Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza fasciculiflora Franch.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza floribunda Bunge	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza fordii Schindl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza forrestii Schindl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza gerardiana Maxim.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza hirta (L.) Hornem.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza hispida (Franch.) T. Nemoto & H. Ohashi	Accepted		TRO
Lespedeza homoloba Nakai	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza inschanica (Maxim.) Schindl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza intermedia (S.Watson) Britton	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza intermixta Makino	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza japonica L.H.Bailey	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza juncea (L.f.) Pers.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza junghuhniana Bakh.f.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza kagoshimensis Hatus.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza leptostachya A.Gray	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza maximowiczii R.C.Schneid.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza melanantha Nakai	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza mucronata Ricker	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza neglecta (Britton) Mack. & Bush	Accepted		TRO
Lespedeza × oblongifolia (Britton) W. Stone	Accepted		TRO
Lespedeza pilosa (Thunb.) Siebold & Zucc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza polyantha (Franch.) H. Lév.	Accepted		TRO
Lespedeza potaninii Vassilcz.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza procumbens Michx.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza pubescens Hayata	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza repens (L.) W.P.C.Barton	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza speciosa Maxim.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza stuevei Nutt.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza texana Britton	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza thunbergii (DC.) Nakai	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza tomentosa (Thunb.) Maxim.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza violacea (L.) Pers.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza virgata (Murray) DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza virginica (L.) Britton	Accepted		ILDIS
Lespedeza wilfordii Ricker	Accepted		ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 254 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Lespedeza. Of these 49 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 135 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Lespedeza. 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 254 species names for the genus Lespedeza recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	49	19.3%
◕	Synonym	166	65.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	39	15.4%

All names

The status of the 389 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Lespedeza recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	63	16.2%
◕	Synonym	284	73.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	42	10.8%

Of these names,

• 7 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 3 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 254 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Lespedeza, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	45	138	0	0	183	72.0%
	Medium confidence	4	27	0	0	31	12.2%
	Low confidence	0	1	0	39	40	15.7%

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