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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pueraria

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Pueraria alopecuroides Craib	Accepted		ILDIS
Pueraria bella Prain	Accepted		ILDIS
Pueraria bouffordii H. Ohashi	Accepted		TRO
Pueraria calycina Franch.	Accepted		ILDIS
Pueraria candollei Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Pueraria edulis Pamp.	Accepted		ILDIS
Pueraria garhwalensis L.R.Dangwal & D.S.Rawat	Accepted		ILDIS
Pueraria imbricata Maesen	Accepted		ILDIS
Pueraria lacei Craib	Accepted		ILDIS
Pueraria maclurei (F.P. Metcalf) F.J. Herm.	Accepted		TRO
Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Pueraria peduncularis (Benth.) Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Pueraria phaseoloides (Roxb.) Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Pueraria pulcherrima (Koord.) Koord.-Schum.	Accepted		ILDIS
Pueraria sikkimensis Prain	Accepted		ILDIS
Pueraria stracheyi Baker	Accepted		ILDIS
Pueraria stricta Kurz	Accepted		ILDIS
Pueraria tuberosa (Willd.) DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Pueraria wallichii DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Pueraria xyzhuii H. Ohashi & Iokawa	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 74 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pueraria. Of these 20 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 18 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pueraria. 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 74 species names for the genus Pueraria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	20	27.0%
◕	Synonym	51	68.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	4.1%

All names

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

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	27	29.3%
◕	Synonym	62	67.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	3.3%

Of these names,

• 2 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 74 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pueraria, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	15	47	0	0	62	83.8%
	Medium confidence	3	4	0	0	7	9.5%
	Low confidence	2	0	0	3	5	6.8%

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