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The genus Roscoea is in the family Zingiberaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Roscoea

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Roscoea alpina Royle	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea auriculata K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea australis Cowley	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea bhutanica Ngamr.	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea brandisii (King ex Baker) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea cangshanensis M.H.Luo, X.F.Gao & H.H.Lin	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea capitata Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea cautleyoides Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea debilis Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea forrestii Cowley	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea ganeshensis Cowley & W.J.Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea humeana Balf.f. & W.W.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea kunmingensis S.Q.Tong	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea nepalensis Cowley	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea ngainoi A.A.Mao & Bhaumik	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea praecox K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea purpurea Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea schneideriana (Loes.) Cowley	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea scillifolia (Gagnep.) Cowley	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea tibetica Batalin	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea tumjensis Cowley	Accepted		WCSP
Roscoea wardii Cowley	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 42 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Roscoea. Of these 22 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 41 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Roscoea. 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 42 species names for the genus Roscoea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	22	52.4%
◕	Synonym	19	45.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	2.4%

All names

The status of the 83 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Roscoea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	24	28.9%
◕	Synonym	58	69.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.2%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 42 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Roscoea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	22	19	0	0	41	97.6%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	1	1	2.4%

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