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The genus Polylepis is in the family Rosaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Polylepis

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Polylepis australis Bitter	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis besseri Hieron.	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis crista-galli Bitter	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis flavipila (Bitter) M. Kessler & Schmidt-Leb.	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis hieronymi Pilg.	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis incana x pauta	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis incana x reticulata	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis incana x sericea	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis incarum (Bitter) M. Kessler & Schmidt-Leb.	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis lanata (Kuntze) M. Kessler & Schmidt-Leb.	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis lanuginosa Kunth	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis microphylla (Wedd.) Bitter	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis multijuga Pilg.	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis pauta Hieron.	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis pauta x sericea	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis pepei B.B. Simpson	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis quadrijuga Bitter	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis racemosa Ruiz & Pav.	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis reticulata Hieron.	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis rugulosa Bitter	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis sericea Wedd.	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis subsericans J.F. Macbr.	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis subtusalbida (Bitter) M. Kessler & Schmidt-Leb.	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis tarapacana Phil.	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis tomentella Wedd.	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis triacontandra Bitter	Accepted		TRO
Polylepis weberbaueri Pilg.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 52 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Polylepis. Of these 27 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 37 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Polylepis. 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 52 species names for the genus Polylepis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	27	51.9%
◕	Synonym	20	38.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	5	9.6%

All names

The status of the 89 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Polylepis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	27	30.3%
◕	Synonym	57	64.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	5	5.6%

The confidence with which the status of the 52 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Polylepis, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	27	20	0	0	47	90.4%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	5	5	9.6%

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