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Pueraria

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

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:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
ILDIS 17 47 0 0 3 67 90.5%
Tropicos 3 4 0 2 0 9 12.2%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 1 0 1 1.4%