The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Elodea

The genus Elodea is in the family Hydrocharitaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Elodea

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Elodea bifoliata H.St.John Accepted H WCSP
Elodea callitrichoides (Rich.) Casp. Accepted H WCSP
Elodea canadensis Michx. Accepted H WCSP
Elodea granatensis Humb. & Bonpl. Accepted H WCSP
Elodea nuttallii (Planch.) H.St.John Accepted H WCSP
Elodea potamogeton (Bertero) Espinosa Accepted H WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 36 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Elodea. Of these 6 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 6 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Elodea. 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 36 species names for the genus Elodea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 6 16.7%
Synonym 29 80.6%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 1 2.8%

All names

The status of the 42 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Elodea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 6 14.3%
Synonym 35 83.3%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 1 2.4%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 36 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Elodea, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 6 27 0 0 33 91.7%
Medium confidence 0 2 0 0 2 5.6%
Low confidence 0 0 0 1 1 2.8%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 2 0 1 0 3 8.3%
WCSP 6 27 0 0 0 33 91.7%