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The genus Malpighia is in the family Malpighiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Malpighia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Malpighia albiflora (Cuatrec.) Cuatrec.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia apiculata Urb.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia aquifolia L.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia cnide Spreng.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia coccigera L.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia cristalensis (F.K. Mey.) F.K. Mey.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia cubensis Kunth	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia emarginata DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Malpighia emiliae W.R. Anderson	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia fucata Ker Gawl.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia glabra L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Malpighia heterophylla Griseb.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia hispaniolica F.K. Mey.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia horrida Small	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia incana Mill.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia infestissima Rich. ex Nied.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia lancifolia (Nied.) F.K. Mey.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia linearis Jacq.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia martiana Acuña & Roíg	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia martinicensis Jacq.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia megacantha (A. Juss.) Urb.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia mexicana A. Juss.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia nayaritensis (Vivaldi) F.K. Mey.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia novogaliciana W.R. Anderson	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia ovalis (Ekman & Nied.) F.K. Mey.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia ovata Rose	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia oxycocca Griseb.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia polytricha A. Juss.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia pusillifolia (Ekman & Nied.) F.K. Mey.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia romeroana Cuatrec.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia souzae Miranda	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia substrigosa F.K. Mey.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia tomentosa Pav. ex Moric.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia urens L.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia velutina Ekman & Nied.	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia verruculosa W.R. Anderson	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia watsonii Rose	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia wendtii W.R. Anderson	Accepted		TRO
Malpighia wilburiorum W.R. Anderson	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 252 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Malpighia. Of these 39 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 49 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Malpighia. 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 252 species names for the genus Malpighia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	39	15.5%
◕	Synonym	88	34.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	125	49.6%

All names

The status of the 301 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Malpighia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	44	14.6%
◕	Synonym	132	43.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	125	41.5%

The confidence with which the status of the 252 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Malpighia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	39	83	0	0	122	48.4%
	Low confidence	0	5	0	125	130	51.6%

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