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The genus Protea is in the family Proteaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Protea

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Protea acaulos Reich.	Accepted		TRO
Protea acuminata Sims	Accepted		TRO
Protea angolensis Welw.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Protea baumii Engl. & Gilg	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Protea burchellii Stapf	Accepted		TRO
Protea caespitosa Andrews	Accepted		TRO
Protea caffra Meisn.	Accepted		TRO
Protea canaliculata Andrews	Accepted		TRO
Protea compacta R. Br.	Accepted		TRO
Protea coronata Lam.	Accepted		TRO
Protea cynaroides (L.) L.	Accepted		TRO
Protea dekindtiana Engl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Protea effusa E. Mey. Ex Meisn.	Accepted		TRO
Protea eximia (Knight) Fourc.	Accepted		TRO
Protea flavopilosa Beard	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Protea foliosa Rourke	Accepted		TRO
Protea gaguedi J.F.Gmel.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Protea holosericea Rourke	Accepted		TRO
Protea laurifolia Thunb.	Accepted		TRO
Protea lepidocarpodendron L.	Accepted		TRO
Protea leucoblepharis (Hiern) Baker	Accepted		TRO
Protea longifolia Andrews	Accepted		TRO
Protea lorifolia Fourc.	Accepted		TRO
Protea madiensis Oliv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Protea magnifica Link	Accepted		TRO
Protea micans Welw.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Protea minima Hauman	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Protea nana Thunb.	Accepted		TRO
Protea nitida Mill.	Accepted		TRO
Protea obtusifolia De Wild.	Accepted		TRO
Protea ongotium Beard	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Protea paludosa (Hiern) Engl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Protea petiolaris (Hiern) Baker & C.H.Wright	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Protea pityphylla Phill. X P. Effusa E. Mey. Ex Meisn.	Accepted		TRO
Protea repens L.	Accepted		TRO
Protea restionifolia Rycroft	Accepted		TRO
Protea rupestris R.E.Fr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Protea scabra R. Br.	Accepted		TRO
Protea scolopendriifolia Rourke	Accepted		TRO
Protea simplex PHILLIPS	Accepted		TRO
Protea speciosa L.	Accepted		TRO
Protea subulifolia Rourke	Accepted		TRO
Protea subvestita N.E. Br.	Accepted		TRO
Protea tenax R. Br.	Accepted		TRO
Protea welwitschii Engl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Protea wentzeliana Engl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 600 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Protea. Of these 46 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 36 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Protea. 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 600 species names for the genus Protea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	46	7.7%
◕	Synonym	59	9.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	495	82.5%

All names

The status of the 636 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Protea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	56	8.8%
◕	Synonym	80	12.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	500	78.6%

The confidence with which the status of the 600 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Protea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	45	58	0	0	103	17.2%
	Low confidence	1	1	0	495	497	82.8%

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