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The genus Sphaeralcea is in the family Malvaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Sphaeralcea

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Sphaeralcea aboriginum (B.L. Rob.) Jeps.	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea ambigua A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea angusta (A. Gray) Fernald	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea angustifolia (Cav.) G.Don	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sphaeralcea australis Speg.	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea axillaris S. Watson	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea bonariensis (Cav.) Griseb.	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea brevipes (Phil.) Krapov.	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea chenopodifolia Rodrigo	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea coccinea (Nutt.) Rydb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sphaeralcea cordobensis Krapov.	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea coulteri (S. Watson) A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea crispa Hook. & Baker f.	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea davidsonii (B.L. Rob.) Jeps.	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea densiflora (S. Watson) Jeps.	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea digitata (Greene) Rydb.	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea emoryi Torr. ex A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea fendleri A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea fremontii (Torr. ex A. Gray) Jeps.	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea fumariensis (S.L. Welsh & N.D. Atwood) N.D. Atwood & S.L. Welsh	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea grossulariifolia (Hook. & Arn.) Rydb.	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea hastulata A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea janeae (S.L. Welsh) S.L. Welsh	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea laxa Wooton & Standl.	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea leptophylla (A. Gray) Rydb.	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea mendocina Phil.	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea miniata (Cav.) Spach	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea moorei (S.L. Welsh) N.D. Atwood & S.L. Welsh	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea munroana (Douglas ex Lindl.) Spach ex A.Gray	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sphaeralcea obtusiloba G. Don	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea orbiculata (Greene) Jeps.	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea palmeri (S. Watson) Jeps.	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea parryi (Greene) Jeps.	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea parvifolia A. Nelson	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea pedatifida (A. Gray) A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea philippiana Krapov.	Accepted		TRO
Sphaeralcea purpurata Krap.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 159 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Sphaeralcea. Of these 37 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 90 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Sphaeralcea. 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 159 species names for the genus Sphaeralcea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	37	23.3%
◕	Synonym	74	46.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	48	30.2%

All names

The status of the 249 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Sphaeralcea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	56	22.5%
◕	Synonym	137	55.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	56	22.5%

The confidence with which the status of the 159 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Sphaeralcea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	37	74	0	0	111	69.8%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	48	48	30.2%

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