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- The Plant List
- Angiosperms
- Polygonaceae
- Bistorta
- Polygonaceae
- Angiosperms
Bistorta
The genus Bistorta is in the family Polygonaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).
Statistics are at the end of the page.
Species in Bistorta
See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.
Statistics
The Plant List includes 55 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Bistorta. Of these 1 are accepted species names.
The Plant List includes a further 4 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Bistorta. 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 55 species names for the genus Bistorta recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 1 | 1.8% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 4 | 7.3% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 0 | 0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 50 | 90.9% |
All names
The status of the 59 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Bistorta recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 1 | 1.7% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 7 | 11.9% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 0 | 0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 51 | 86.4% |
The confidence with which the status of the 55 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Bistorta, are assigned as follows:
| Confidence level | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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High confidence | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% |
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Medium confidence | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.8% |
 |
Low confidence | 0 | 4 | 0 | 50 | 54 | 98.2% |
The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Bistorta is as follows:
| Source of record | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Misapplied | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropicos | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9.1% |
| WCSP (in review) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 90.9% |