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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Stylosanthes

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Stylosanthes acuminata M.B.Ferreira & Sousa Costa	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes angustifolia Vogel	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes aurea M.B.Ferreira & Sousa Costa	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes bahiensis L.'t Mannetje & G.P.Lewis	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes biflora (L.) Britton & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes bracteata Vogel	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes calcicola Small	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes campestris M.B.Ferreira & Sousa Costa	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes capitata Vogel	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes cayennensis Mohlenbr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes debilis M.B.Ferreira & Sousa Costa	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes dissitiflora Robinson & Seaton	Accepted		TRO
Stylosanthes erecta P.Beauv.	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes figueroae Mohlenbr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes fruticosa (Retz.) Alston	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes grandifolia M.B.Ferreira & Sousa Costa	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes guianensis (Aubl.) Sw.	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes guineensis G.Don	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes hamata (L.) Taub.	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes hippocampoides Mohlenbr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes hispida Rich.	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes humilis Kunth	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes ingrata S.F.Blake	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes leiocarpa Vogel	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes linearifolia M.B.Ferreira & Sousa Costa	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes longiseta Micheli	Accepted		TRO
Stylosanthes macrocarpa S.F.Blake	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes macrocephala M.B.Ferreira & Sousa Costa	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes macrosoma S.F.Blake	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes mexicana Taub.	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes montevidensis Vogel	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes nervosa J.F.Macbr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes pilosa M.B.Ferreira & Sousa Costa	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes ruellioides Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes scabra Vogel	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes sericeiceps S.F.Blake	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes suborbiculata Chiov.	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes subsericea S.F.Blake	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes suffruticosa Mohlenbr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes sympodialis Taub.	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes tomentosa M.B.Ferreira & Sousa Costa	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes tuberculata S.F.Blake	Accepted		ILDIS
Stylosanthes viscosa Sw.	Accepted		ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 92 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Stylosanthes. Of these 43 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 44 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Stylosanthes. 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 92 species names for the genus Stylosanthes recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	43	46.7%
◕	Synonym	36	39.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	13	14.1%

All names

The status of the 136 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Stylosanthes recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	46	33.8%
◕	Synonym	77	56.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	13	9.6%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

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

The confidence with which the status of the 92 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Stylosanthes, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	30	28	0	0	58	63.0%
	Medium confidence	2	8	0	0	10	10.9%
	Low confidence	11	0	0	13	24	26.1%

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