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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Ritchiea

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Ritchiea agelaeifolia Gilg	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Ritchiea capparoides (Andrews) Britten	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Ritchiea carrissoi Exell & Mendonça	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Ritchiea duchesnei (De Wild.) Keay	Accepted		TRO
Ritchiea gossweileri Exell & Mendonça	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Ritchiea grandiflora (Pax) Gilg	Accepted		TRO
Ritchiea insignis (Pax) Gilg	Accepted		TRO
Ritchiea mayumbensis Exell	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Ritchiea noldeae Exell & Mendonça	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Ritchiea polypetala Hook. f.	Accepted		TRO
Ritchiea reflexa (Thonn.) Gilg & Gilg-Ben.	Accepted		TRO
Ritchiea spragueana Gilg & Gilg-Ben.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Ritchiea youngii Exell	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 60 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Ritchiea. Of these 13 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Ritchiea. 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 60 species names for the genus Ritchiea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	13	21.7%
◕	Synonym	5	8.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	42	70.0%

All names

The status of the 61 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Ritchiea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	14	23.0%
◕	Synonym	5	8.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	42	68.9%

The confidence with which the status of the 60 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Ritchiea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	13	5	0	0	18	30.0%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	42	42	70.0%

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