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The genus Portulaca is in the family Portulacaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Portulaca

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Portulaca amilis Speg.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca argentinensis Speg.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca boliviensis Poelln.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca brevifolia Urb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca chacoana D. Legrand	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca colombiana D.Legrand	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca confertifolia Hauman	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca conzattii P. Wilson	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca cryptopetala Speg.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca echinosperma Hauman	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca elatior Mart. ex Rohrb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca elongata Rusby	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca eruca Hauman	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca fluvialis D. Legrand	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca foliosa Ker Gawl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca frieseana Poelln.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca fulgens Griseb.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca gilliesii Hook.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca grandiflora Hook.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca guanajuatensis Ocampo	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca halimoides L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca hatschbachii D.Legrand	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca hereroensis Schinz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca howellii (D. Legrand) Eliasson	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca insignis Steyerm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca insularis Hosok.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca kermesina N.E. Br.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca lanuginosa Kunth	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca longiusculotuberculata Poelln.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca macbridei D. Legrand	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca matthewsii G. Ocampo	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca mexicana P. Wilson	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca mucronata Link	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca nivea Poelln.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca obtusa Poelln.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca oleracea L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca papulifera D. Legrand	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca papulosa Schltdl.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca perennis R.E. Fr.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca philippii I.M. Johnst.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca pilosa L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca psammotropha Hance	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca pusilla Kunth	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca pygmaea Steyerm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca quadrifida L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca rotundifolia R.E. Fr.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca rubricaulis Kunth	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca rzedowskiana G. Ocampo	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca saxifragoides Welw. ex Oliv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca sedifolia N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca sedoides Welw. ex Oliv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca simpliciuscula Mart. ex Rohrb.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca striata Poelln.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca teretifolia Kunth	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca thellusonii Lindl.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca tingoensis J.F. Macbr.	Accepted		TRO
Portulaca umbraticola Kunth	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Portulaca yecorensis Henrickson & T. Van Devender	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 333 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Portulaca. Of these 58 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 86 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Portulaca. 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 333 species names for the genus Portulaca recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	58	17.4%
◕	Synonym	88	26.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	187	56.2%

All names

The status of the 419 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Portulaca recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	67	16.0%
◕	Synonym	160	38.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	192	45.8%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 3 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 333 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Portulaca, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	57	87	0	0	144	43.2%
	Low confidence	1	1	0	187	189	56.8%

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