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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Sophora

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Sophora affinis Torr. & A.Gray	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora albescens (Rehder) C.Y.Ma	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora albo-petiolulata Leonard	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora alopecuroides L.	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora arizonica S.Watson	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora bakeri Prain	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora benthamii Steenis	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora brachygyna C.Y.Ma	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora chrysophylla (Salisb.) Seem.	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora conzattii Standl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora davidii (Franch.) Pavol.	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora denudata Bory	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora dunnii Craib	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora exigua Craib	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora fernandeziana (Phil.) Skottsb.	Accepted		TRO
Sophora flavescens Aiton	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora franchetiana Dunn	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora fraseri Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora gibbosa (DC.) Yakovlev	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora gypsophila B.L.Turner & A.M.Powell	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora howinsula (W.R.B.Oliv.) P.S.Green	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora inhambanensis Klotzsch	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora interrupta Bedd.	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora jaubertii Spach	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora koreensis Nakai	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora lanaiensis (Chock) Degener & I. Degener	Accepted		TRO
Sophora leachiana M.Peck	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora lehmanni (Bunge) Yakovlev	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora lehmannii (Bunge) Townsend	Accepted		TRO
Sophora linearifolia Griseb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora longipes Merr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora macnabiana (Graham) Skottsb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora macrocarpa Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Sophora masafuerana (Phil.) Skottsb.	Accepted		TRO
Sophora microcarpa C.Y.Ma	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora microphylla Aiton	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora mollis (Royle) Baker	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora moorcroftiana (Benth.) Baker	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora nuttalliana B.L.Turner	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora pachycarpa C.A.Mey.	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora polyphylla Urb.	Accepted		TRO
Sophora praetorulosa Chun & T.Chen	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora prazeri Prain	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora prostrata Buchanan	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora purpusii Brandegee	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora rhynchocarpa Griseb.	Accepted		TRO
Sophora rubriflora P.C.Tsoong	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora saxicola Proctor	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora secundiflora (Ortega) DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora songorica Schrenk	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora stenophylla A.Gray	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora tetraptera J.F.Mill.	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora tomentosa L.	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora tonkinensis Gagnep.	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora toromiro Skottsb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora unifoliata (Rock) Degener & Sherff	Accepted		TRO
Sophora velutina Lindl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora wightii Baker	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora xanthantha C.Y.Ma	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora xanthoantha C.Y. Ma	Accepted		TRO
Sophora yunnanensis C.Y.Ma	Accepted		ILDIS
Sophora zeylanica Trimen	Accepted		ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 216 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Sophora. Of these 62 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 95 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Sophora. 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 216 species names for the genus Sophora recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	62	28.7%
◕	Synonym	96	44.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	58	26.9%

All names

The status of the 311 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Sophora recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	84	27.0%
◕	Synonym	165	53.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	62	19.9%

Of these names,

• 5 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 7 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 216 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Sophora, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	52	71	0	0	123	56.9%
	Medium confidence	9	22	0	0	31	14.4%
	Low confidence	1	3	0	58	62	28.7%

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