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The genus Beta is in the family Amaranthaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Beta

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Beta campanulata Coss.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Beta chilensis auct.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Beta corolliflora Zosimovic ex Buttler	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Beta intermedia Bunge ex Boiss.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Beta lomatogona Fisch. & C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Beta macrocarpa Guss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Beta macrorhiza Steven	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Beta nana Boiss. & Heldr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Beta palonga R.K.Basu & K.K.Mukh.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Beta patula Aiton	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Beta perennis Freyn	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Beta rubra Delile	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Beta trigyna Waldst. & Kit.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Beta trigynia Larrañaga	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Beta vulgaris L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23	2

Statistics

The Plant List includes 50 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Beta. Of these 9 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 59 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Beta. 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 50 species names for the genus Beta recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	9	18.0%
◕	Synonym	35	70.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	6	12.0%

All names

The status of the 109 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Beta recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	10.1%
◕	Synonym	92	84.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	6	5.5%

Of the species names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 50 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Beta, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	9	35	0	0	44	88.0%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	6	6	12.0%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Beta is as follows: