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The genus Bletia is in the family Orchidaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Bletia

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Bletia adenocarpa Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia amabilis C.Schweinf.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia antillana M.A.Diaz & Sosa	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia campanulata Lex.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia candida Kraenzl.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia catenulata Ruiz & Pav.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia coccinea Lex.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia concolor Dressler	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia elegans (Rchb. f.) Rchb. f.	Accepted		TRO
Bletia ensifolia L.O.Williams	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia euspatha (Rchb. f.) Rchb. f.	Accepted		TRO
Bletia florida (Salisb.) R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia gracilis Lodd.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia greenmaniana L.O.Williams	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia greenwoodiana Sosa	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia lilacina A.Rich. & Galeotti	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia macristhmochila Greenm.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia meridana (Rchb.f.) Garay & Dunst.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia neglecta Sosa	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia nelsonii Ames	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia netzeri Senghas	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia parkinsonii Hook.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia parviflora Ruiz & Pav.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia patula Hook.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia punctata Lex.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia purpurata A.Rich. & Galeotti	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia purpurea (Lam.) DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia reflexa Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia repanda Ruiz & Pav.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia riparia Sosa & Palestina	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia roezlii Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia × similis Dressler	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia stenophylla Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia × tamayoana S.Rosillo ex Saltero	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia tenuifolia Ames & C.Schweinf.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia uniflora Ruiz & Pav.	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia urbana Dressler	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia villae Soto Arenas	Accepted		WCSP
Bletia warfordiana Sosa	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 187 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Bletia. Of these 39 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 21 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Bletia. 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 187 species names for the genus Bletia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	39	20.9%
◕	Synonym	141	75.4%
◕	Unplaced	3	1.6%
◕	Unassessed	4	2.1%

All names

The status of the 208 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Bletia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	39	18.8%
◕	Synonym	162	77.9%
◕	Unplaced	3	1.4%
◕	Unassessed	4	1.9%

Of these names,

• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 187 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Bletia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	37	127	0	0	164	87.7%
	Medium confidence	2	4	0	0	6	3.2%
	Low confidence	0	10	3	4	17	9.1%

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