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The genus Alectra is in the family Orobanchaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Alectra

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Alectra aberdarica Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra alectroides (S.Moore) Melch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra arabica Deflers	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra asperrima Benth.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra atrosanguinea (Hiern) Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra aurantiaca Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra bainesii Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra basserei Berhaut	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra basutica (E.Phillips) Melch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra capensis Thunb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra dolichocalyx Philcox	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra dunensis Hilliard & B.L.Burtt	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra fruticosa Eb.Fisch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra glandulosa Philcox	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra gracilis S.Moore	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra hildebrandtii Eb.Fisch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra hirsuta Klotzsch	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra humbertii Eb.Fisch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra hundtii Melch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra ibityensis Eb.Fisch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra lancifolia Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra ledermannii Engl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra linearis Hepper	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra lurida Harv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra natalensis (Hiern) Melch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra orobanchoides Benth.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra parasitica A.Rich.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra parvifolia (Engl.) Schinz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra pedicularioides Baker	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra picta (Hiern) Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra pseudobarleriae (Dinter) Dinter	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra pubescens Philcox	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra rigida (Hiern) Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra schliebenii Melch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra schoenfelderi Dinter & Melch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra sessiliflora (Vahl) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra stolzii Engl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra thyrsoidea Melch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra trinervis Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra virgata Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alectra vogelii Benth.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 79 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Alectra. Of these 41 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 12 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Alectra. 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 79 species names for the genus Alectra recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	41	51.9%
◕	Synonym	35	44.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	3.8%

All names

The status of the 91 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Alectra recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	46	50.5%
◕	Synonym	42	46.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	3.3%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 79 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Alectra, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	37	29	0	0	66	83.5%
	Low confidence	4	6	0	3	13	16.5%

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