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Pterocarpus

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pterocarpus

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Pterocarpus acapulcensis Rose Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus acuminatus (Graham in Wallich) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Pterocarpus albopubescens Hauman Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus amazonum (Benth.) Amshoff Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus amoenus (Wall.) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Pterocarpus angolensis DC. Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus antunesii (Taub.) Harms Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus brenanii Barbosa & Torre Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus claessensii De Wild. Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus cuneifolius (Graham) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Pterocarpus dalbergioides DC. Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus echinatus Pers. Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus elegans (Graham) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir. Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus ferrugineus (Roxb.) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Pterocarpus forstenianus (Blume ex Miq.) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Pterocarpus gilletii De Wild. Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus grandifolius (Graham) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Pterocarpus heyneanus (Graham) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Pterocarpus hockii De Wild. Accepted L ILDIS
Pterocarpus homblei De Wild. Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus indicus Willd. Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus lucens Guill. & Perr. Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus macrocarpus Kurz Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb. Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus mildbraedii Harms Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus mutondo De Wild. Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus officinalis Jacq. Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus orbiculatus DC. Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus osun Craib Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus ovalifolius (Wight & Arn.) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Pterocarpus pubipetalus (Miq.) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Pterocarpus rohrii Vahl Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus rotundifolius (Sond.) Druce Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus santalinoides DC. Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus santalinus L.f. Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus scandens (Roxb.) Kuntze Accepted M TRO
Pterocarpus soyauxii Taub. Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus ternatus Rizzini Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus tessmannii Harms Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus tinctorius Welw. Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus velutinus De Wild. Accepted L ILDIS
Pterocarpus villosus (Benth.) Benth. Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus violaceus Vogel Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus zehntneri Harms Accepted H ILDIS
Pterocarpus zenkeri Harms Accepted L ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 227 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pterocarpus. Of these 46 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 30 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pterocarpus. 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 227 species names for the genus Pterocarpus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 46 20.3%
Synonym 123 54.2%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 58 25.6%

All names

The status of the 257 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pterocarpus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 53 20.6%
Synonym 146 56.8%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 58 22.6%

Of these names,

A further 2 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 227 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pterocarpus, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 32 74 0 0 106 46.7%
Medium confidence 11 45 0 0 56 24.7%
Low confidence 3 4 0 58 65 28.6%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
ILDIS 35 77 0 0 2 114 50.2%
Tropicos 11 46 0 7 0 64 28.2%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 51 0 51 22.5%