The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Nepenthes

The genus Nepenthes is in the family Nepenthaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Nepenthes

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Nepenthes madagascariensis Poir. Accepted M TRO
Nepenthes mirabilis (Lour.) Druce Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 239 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Nepenthes. Of these 2 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 5 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Nepenthes. 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 239 species names for the genus Nepenthes recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 2 0.8%
Synonym 3 1.3%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 234 97.9%

All names

The status of the 244 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Nepenthes recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 3 1.2%
Synonym 5 2.0%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 236 96.7%

The confidence with which the status of the 239 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Nepenthes, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 2 3 0 0 5 2.1%
Low confidence 0 0 0 234 234 97.9%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 2 3 0 3 0 8 3.3%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 231 0 231 96.7%