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The genus Eichhornia is in the family Pontederiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Eichhornia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Eichhornia azurea (Sw.) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms	Accepted		WCSP
Eichhornia diversifolia (Vahl) Urb.	Accepted		WCSP
Eichhornia heterosperma Alexander	Accepted		WCSP
Eichhornia paniculata (Spreng.) Solms	Accepted		WCSP
Eichhornia paradoxa (Mart. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Solms	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 26 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Eichhornia. Of these 6 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Eichhornia. 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 26 species names for the genus Eichhornia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	23.1%
◕	Synonym	18	69.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	7.7%

All names

The status of the 28 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Eichhornia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	21.4%
◕	Synonym	20	71.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	7.1%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 26 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Eichhornia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	6	17	0	0	23	88.5%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	3.8%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	2	2	7.7%

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