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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pterygodium

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Pterygodium acutifolium Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Pterygodium alatum (Thunb.) Sw.	Accepted		WCSP
Pterygodium caffrum (L.) Sw.	Accepted		WCSP
Pterygodium catholicum (L.) Sw.	Accepted		WCSP
Pterygodium connivens Schelpe	Accepted		WCSP
Pterygodium cooperi Rolfe	Accepted		WCSP
Pterygodium cruciferum Sond.	Accepted		WCSP
Pterygodium hallii (Schelpe) Kurzweil & H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pterygodium hastatum Bolus	Accepted		WCSP
Pterygodium inversum (Thunb.) Sw.	Accepted		WCSP
Pterygodium leucanthum Bolus	Accepted		WCSP
Pterygodium magnum Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Pterygodium newdigatae Bolus	Accepted		WCSP
Pterygodium pentherianum Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP
Pterygodium platypetalum Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Pterygodium schelpei H.P.Linder	Accepted		WCSP
Pterygodium ukingense Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP
Pterygodium vermiferum E.G.H.Oliv. & Liltved	Accepted		WCSP
Pterygodium volucris (L.f.) Sw.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 44 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pterygodium. Of these 19 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pterygodium. 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 44 species names for the genus Pterygodium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	19	43.2%
◕	Synonym	25	56.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 45 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pterygodium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	20	44.4%
◕	Synonym	25	55.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

The confidence with which the status of the 44 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pterygodium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	19	23	0	0	42	95.5%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	4.5%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

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