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The genus Loasa is in the family Loasaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Loasa

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Loasa acanthifolia Lam.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Loasa acerifolia Dombey ex Juss.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa argentina Urb. & Gilg	Accepted		TRO
Loasa arnottiana Gay	Accepted		TRO
Loasa aspiazui J.F. Macbr.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa bergii Hieron.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Loasa caespitosa Phil.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa carnea Urb. & Gilg	Accepted		TRO
Loasa carunculata Urb. & Gilg	Accepted		TRO
Loasa elongata Hook. & Arn.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa filicifolia Poepp.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Loasa floribunda Hooker & Arn.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa gayana Urb. & Gilg	Accepted		TRO
Loasa hastata Killip	Accepted		TRO
Loasa heterophylla Hook. & Arn.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa heucheraefolia Killip	Accepted		TRO
Loasa humilis Phil.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa illapelina Phil.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa incana Graham	Accepted		TRO
Loasa insons Poepp.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa lateritia Gillies ex Arn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Loasa laxa J.F. Macbr.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa lenta J.F. Macbr.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa limata J.F. Macbr.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa longiseta Phil.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Loasa macrantha Urb. & Gilg	Accepted		TRO
Loasa macrorrhiza Urb. & Gilg	Accepted		TRO
Loasa macrothyrsa Urb. & Gilg	Accepted		TRO
Loasa magnifica Urb. & Gilg	Accepted		TRO
Loasa malesherbioides Phil.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa martinii Phil.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa micrantha Poepp.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Loasa multifida Gay	Accepted		TRO
Loasa nana Phil.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa nitida Desr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Loasa pallida Gillies ex Arn.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa paradoxa Urb. & Gilg	Accepted		TRO
Loasa picta Hook. f.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa pinnatifida Gillies ex Arn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Loasa ranunculifolia Kunth	Accepted		TRO
Loasa rugosa Killip	Accepted		TRO
Loasa sclareifolia Juss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Loasa sigmoidea Urb. & Gilg	Accepted		TRO
Loasa solaria J.F. Macbr.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa solata J.F. Macbr.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa stuebeliana Urb. & Gilg	Accepted		TRO
Loasa tingomariensis J.F. Macbr.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa tricolor Ker Gawl.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa triloba Dombey ex Juss.	Accepted		TRO
Loasa volubilis Juss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Loasa weberbaueri Urb. & Gilg	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 217 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Loasa. Of these 51 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 18 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Loasa. 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 217 species names for the genus Loasa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	51	23.5%
◕	Synonym	121	55.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	45	20.7%

All names

The status of the 235 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Loasa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	51	21.7%
◕	Synonym	138	58.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	46	19.6%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 217 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Loasa, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	51	116	0	0	167	77.0%
	Low confidence	0	5	0	45	50	23.0%

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