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The genus Pterocaulon is in the family Compositae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pterocaulon

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Pterocaulon alopecuroides (Lam.) DC.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon alopecuroideum Chodat	Unresolved		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon angustifolium DC.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon balansae Chodat	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon capitatum Britton	Unresolved		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon cordobense Kuntze	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon globuliferus W.Fitzg.	Unresolved		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon globuliflorus W.Fitzg.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon lanatum Kuntze	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon lorentzii Malme	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon niveum Cabrera & Ragonese	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon polypterum (DC.) Cabrera	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon polystachyum DC.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon purpurascens Malme	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon pycnostachyum (Michx.) Elliott	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon redolens Boerl.	Unresolved		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon redolens (G.Forst. ex Willd.) Benth. ex Fern.-Vill.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon rugosum (Vahl) Malme	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon serratum O.Schwarz	Unresolved		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon serrulatum (Montrouz.) Guillaumin	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon sphacelatum (Labill.) F.Muell.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon sphaeranthoides (DC.) F.Muell.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon spicatum (Cass.) DC.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11	1
Pterocaulon subspicatum Malme	Unresolved		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon verbascifolium (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Benth. & Hook. ex F.Muell.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Pterocaulon virgatum (L.) DC.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11

Statistics

The Plant List includes 77 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pterocaulon. Of these 20 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 26 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pterocaulon. 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 77 species names for the genus Pterocaulon recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	20	26.0%
◕	Synonym	51	66.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	6	7.8%

All names

The status of the 103 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pterocaulon recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	21	20.4%
◕	Synonym	76	73.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	6	5.8%

Of the species names,

• 7 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 77 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pterocaulon, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	20	51	0	0	71	92.2%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	6	6	7.8%

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