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The genus Rheum is in the family Polygonaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Rheum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Rheum acuminatum Hook. f. & Thomson	Accepted		TRO
Rheum alexandrae Batalin	Accepted		TRO
Rheum altaicum Losinsk.	Accepted		TRO
Rheum australe D. Don	Accepted		TRO
Rheum compactum L.	Accepted		TRO
Rheum delavayi Franch.	Accepted		TRO
Rheum forrestii Diels	Accepted		TRO
Rheum glabricaule Sam.	Accepted		TRO
Rheum globulosum Gage	Accepted		TRO
Rheum hotaoense C.Y. Cheng & T.C. Kao	Accepted		TRO
Rheum × hybridum Murray	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rheum inopinatum Prain	Accepted		TRO
Rheum kialense Franch.	Accepted		TRO
Rheum laciniatum Prain	Accepted		TRO
Rheum lhasaense A.J. Li & P.G. Xiao	Accepted		TRO
Rheum likiangense Sam.	Accepted		TRO
Rheum lucidum Losinsk.	Accepted		TRO
Rheum macrocarpum Losinsk.	Accepted		TRO
Rheum maculatum C.Y. Cheng & T.C. Kao	Accepted		TRO
Rheum nanum Siev. ex Pall.	Accepted		TRO
Rheum nobile Hook. f. & Thomson	Accepted		TRO
Rheum officinale Baill.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rheum palmatum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rheum przewalskyi Losinsk.	Accepted		TRO
Rheum pumilum Maxim.	Accepted		TRO
Rheum racemiferum Maxim.	Accepted		TRO
Rheum rhabarbarum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rheum rhaponticum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rheum rhizostachyum Schrenk	Accepted		TRO
Rheum rhomboideum Losinsk.	Accepted		TRO
Rheum spiciforme Royle	Accepted		TRO
Rheum subacaule Sam.	Accepted		TRO
Rheum sublanceolatum C.Y. Cheng & T.C. Kao	Accepted		TRO
Rheum tanguticum Maxim. ex Balf.	Accepted		TRO
Rheum tataricum L.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Rheum tibeticum Maxim. ex Hook. f.	Accepted		TRO
Rheum turkestanicum Janisch.	Accepted		TRO
Rheum uninerve Maxim.	Accepted		TRO
Rheum webbianum Royle	Accepted		TRO
Rheum wittrockii C.E. Lundstr.	Accepted		TRO
Rheum yunnanense Sam.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 114 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Rheum. Of these 41 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 7 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Rheum. 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 114 species names for the genus Rheum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	41	36.0%
◕	Synonym	36	31.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	37	32.5%

All names

The status of the 121 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Rheum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	42	34.7%
◕	Synonym	42	34.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	37	30.6%

The confidence with which the status of the 114 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Rheum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	41	33	0	0	74	64.9%
	Low confidence	0	3	0	37	40	35.1%

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