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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Ornithopus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Ornithopus compressus L.	Accepted		ILDIS
Ornithopus micranthus (Benth.) Arechav.	Accepted		ILDIS
Ornithopus perpusillus L.	Accepted		ILDIS
Ornithopus pinnatus (Mill.) Druce	Accepted		ILDIS
Ornithopus sativus Brot.	Accepted		ILDIS
Ornithopus uncinatus Maire & Sam.	Accepted		ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 50 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Ornithopus. Of these 6 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 4 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Ornithopus. 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 50 species names for the genus Ornithopus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	12.0%
◕	Synonym	13	26.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	31	62.0%

All names

The status of the 54 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Ornithopus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	7	13.0%
◕	Synonym	15	27.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	32	59.3%

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

The confidence with which the status of the 50 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Ornithopus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	6	12	0	0	18	36.0%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	2.0%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	31	31	62.0%

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