The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Hesperis

The genus Hesperis is in the family Brassicaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Hesperis

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Hesperis armena Boiss. Accepted M TRO
Hesperis bicuspidata Poir. Accepted M TRO
Hesperis boissieriana Bornm. Accepted M TRO
Hesperis bottae E. Fourn. Accepted M TRO
Hesperis cinerea Poir. Accepted M TRO
Hesperis dinarica Beck Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Hesperis elata Hornem. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Hesperis hirsutissima Tzvelev Accepted M TRO
Hesperis hyrcana Bornm. & Gauba Accepted M TRO
Hesperis inodora L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Hesperis kotschyi Boiss. Accepted M TRO
Hesperis laciniata All. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Hesperis matronalis L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Hesperis microcalyx E. Fourn. Accepted M TRO
Hesperis multicaulis Boiss. Accepted M TRO
Hesperis nivea Baumg. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Hesperis oblongifolia Schur Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Hesperis odorata F. Dvořák Accepted M TRO
Hesperis persica Boiss. Accepted M TRO
Hesperis pycnotricha Borbás & Degen Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Hesperis robusta Tzvelev Accepted M TRO
Hesperis steveniana DC. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Hesperis sylvestris Crantz Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Hesperis theophrasti Borbás Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Hesperis thyrsoidea Boiss. Accepted M TRO
Hesperis tristis L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Hesperis unguicularis Boiss. Accepted M TRO
Hesperis vrabelyiana (Schur) Borbás Accepted M WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 428 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Hesperis. Of these 28 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 44 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Hesperis. 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 428 species names for the genus Hesperis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 28 6.5%
Synonym 227 53.0%
Unplaced 1 0.2%
Unassessed 172 40.2%

All names

The status of the 472 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Hesperis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 37 7.8%
Synonym 258 54.7%
Unplaced 1 0.2%
Unassessed 176 37.3%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 428 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Hesperis, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 28 214 0 0 242 56.5%
Low confidence 0 13 1 172 186 43.5%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 15 151 0 2 0 168 39.3%
WCSP (in review) 13 76 1 170 0 260 60.7%