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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Sterculia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Sterculia abbreviata E.L.Taylor ex Mondragón	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sterculia africana (Lour.) Fiori	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sterculia allenii E.L. Taylor	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia amazonica E.L.Taylor ex Mondragón	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sterculia apeibophylla Ducke	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia apetala (Jacq.) H.Karst.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sterculia brevissima H.H. Hsue	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia caribaea R. Br.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia ceramica R. Br.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia cinnamomifolia Tsai & Mao	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia colombiana Sprague	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia corrugata Little	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia costaricana Pittier	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia dawei Sprague	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sterculia euosma W.W. Sm.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia excelsa Mart.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia foetida L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sterculia frondosa Rich.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia gengmaensis H.H. Hsue	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia guangxiensis S.J. Xu & P.T. Li	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia guapayensis Cuatrec.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia hainanensis Merr. & Chun	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia henryi Hemsl.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia hymenocalyx K. Schum.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia impressinervis H.H. Hsue	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia kayae P.E.Berry	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sterculia kingtungensis H.H. Hsue	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia lanceifolia Roxb.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia lanceolata Cav.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia mexicana R. Br.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia micrantha Chun & H.H. Hsue	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia mirabilis (A. Chev.) Roberty	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia monosperma Vent.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia peruviana (D.R. Simpson) E.L. Taylor ex Brako & Zarucchi	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia pexa Pierre	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia pinbienensis Tsai & Mao	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia principis Gagnep.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia pruriens (Aubl.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sterculia purpurea Exell	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sterculia quinqueloba (Garcke) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sterculia rugosa R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sterculia scandens Hemsl.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia setigera Delile	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sterculia simaoensis Y.Y. Qian	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia speciosa K. Schum.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia steyermarkii E.L.Taylor ex Mondragón	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sterculia stipulifera Ducke	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia striata A. St.-Hil. & Naudin	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia subnobilis H.H. Hsue	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia subracemosa Chun & H.H. Hsue	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia subviolacea K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sterculia tavia Baill.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia tessmannii Mildbr.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia tonkinensis Aug. DC.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia tragacantha Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sterculia venezuelensis Pittier	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia villifera Steud.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia villosa Roxb.	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia xolocotzii T. Wendt & E.L. Taylor	Accepted		TRO
Sterculia yuanjiangensis H.H. Hsue & S.J.Xu	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 439 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Sterculia. Of these 60 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 15 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Sterculia. 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 439 species names for the genus Sterculia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	60	13.7%
◕	Synonym	79	18.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	300	68.3%

All names

The status of the 454 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Sterculia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	62	13.7%
◕	Synonym	90	19.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	302	66.5%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 439 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Sterculia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	58	74	0	0	132	30.1%
	Low confidence	2	5	0	300	307	69.9%

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