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The genus Caperonia is in the family Euphorbiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Caperonia

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Caperonia aculeolata Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia altissima Eskuche	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia angustissima Klotzsch	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia bahiensis Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia buettneriacea Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia capiibariensis Eskuche	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia castaneifolia (L.) A.St.-Hil.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia castrobarrosiana Paula & Hamburgo	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia chiltepecensis Croizat	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia corchoroides Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia cordata A.St.-Hil.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia cubana Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia fistulosa Beille	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia gardneri Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia glabrata Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia heteropetala Didr.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia langsdorffii Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia latifolia Pax	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia latior (Chodat & Hassl.) Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia linearifolia A.St.-Hil.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia lutea Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia multicostata Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia neglecta G.L.Webster	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia palustris (L.) A.St.-Hil.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia paraguayensis Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia pubescens S.F.Blake	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia regnellii Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia rutenbergii Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia serrata (Turcz.) C.Presl	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia similis Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia stenophylla Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia stuhlmannii Pax	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia subrotunda Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia velloziana Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP
Caperonia zaponzeta Mansf.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 55 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Caperonia. Of these 35 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 17 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Caperonia. 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 55 species names for the genus Caperonia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	35	63.6%
◕	Synonym	18	32.7%
◕	Unplaced	1	1.8%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.8%

All names

The status of the 72 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Caperonia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	35	48.6%
◕	Synonym	35	48.6%
◕	Unplaced	1	1.4%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.4%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 55 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Caperonia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	35	18	0	0	53	96.4%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	0	1	1	2	3.6%

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