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The genus Lythrum is in the family Lythraceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Lythrum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Lythrum alatum Pursh	Accepted		TRO
Lythrum baeticum Gonz.Albo	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Lythrum breviflorum (A. Gray) S. Watson	Accepted		TRO
Lythrum californicum Torr. & A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Lythrum gracile Benth.	Accepted		TRO
Lythrum junceum Banks & Sol.	Accepted		TRO
Lythrum linearifolium (A. Gray) Small	Accepted		TRO
Lythrum linifolium Kar. & Kir.	Accepted		TRO
Lythrum maritimum Kunth	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Lythrum ovalifolium (A. Gray) Engelm. ex Koehne	Accepted		TRO
Lythrum portula (L.) D.A. Webb	Accepted		TRO
Lythrum salicaria L.	Accepted		TRO
Lythrum virgatum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Lythrum virgultosum (DC.) Griseb.	Accepted		TRO
Lythrum vulneraria Aiton ex Schrank	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 183 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Lythrum. Of these 15 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 14 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Lythrum. 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 183 species names for the genus Lythrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	15	8.2%
◕	Synonym	32	17.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	136	74.3%

All names

The status of the 197 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Lythrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	17	8.6%
◕	Synonym	44	22.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	136	69.0%

The confidence with which the status of the 183 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Lythrum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	15	32	0	0	47	25.7%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	136	136	74.3%

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