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The genus Boscia is in the family Capparaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Boscia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Boscia albitrunca (Burch.) Gilg & Benedict	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia angustifolia A.Rich.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia arabica Pestal.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia cauliflora Wild	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia coriacea Graells	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia fadeniorum Fici	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia foetida Schinz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia gossweileri Exell	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia hexamitocarpa Gilg-Ben.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia homblei De Wild.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia kalachariensis Pestal.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia keniensis Beentje	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia longifolia Hadj-Moust.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia madagascariensis (DC.) Hadj-Moust.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia matabelensis Pestal.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia mazzocchii (Chiov.) Fici & Kers	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia microphylla Oliv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia minimifolia Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia mossambicensis Klotzsch	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia oleoides (Burch. ex DC.) Toelken	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia pestalozziana Gilg	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia plantefolii Hadj-Moust.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia polyantha Gilg	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia praecox Hauman	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia pruinosa Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia puberula Pax	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia rotundifolia Pax	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia salicifolia Oliv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia senegalensis Lam.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia tomentosa Toelken	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia urens Welw. ex Oliv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Boscia welwitschii Gilg	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 82 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Boscia. Of these 32 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 7 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Boscia. 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 82 species names for the genus Boscia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	32	39.0%
◕	Synonym	42	51.2%
◕	Unplaced	2	2.4%
◕	Unassessed	6	7.3%

All names

The status of the 89 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Boscia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	37	41.6%
◕	Synonym	44	49.4%
◕	Unplaced	2	2.2%
◕	Unassessed	6	6.7%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 82 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Boscia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	32	42	0	0	74	90.2%
	Low confidence	0	0	2	6	8	9.8%

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