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The genus Epistephium is in the family Orchidaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Epistephium

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Epistephium amabile Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium amplexicaule (Ruiz & Pav.) Poepp. & Endl.	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium brevicristatum R.E.Schult.	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium duckei Huber	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium elatum Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium ellipticum R.O.Williams & Summerh.	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium frederici-augusti Rchb.f. & Warsz.	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium hernandii Garay	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium herzogianum Kraenzl.	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium lamprophyllum Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium laxiflorum Barb.Rodr.	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium lobulosum Garay	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium lucidum Cogn.	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium matogrossense Hoehne	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium parviflorum Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium portellianum Barb.Rodr.	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium praestans Hoehne	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium sclerophyllum Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium sessiliflorum Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium speciosum Barb.Rodr.	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium subrepens Hoehne	Accepted		WCSP
Epistephium williamsii Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 33 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Epistephium. Of these 22 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 4 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Epistephium. 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 33 species names for the genus Epistephium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	22	66.7%
◕	Synonym	10	30.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	3.0%

All names

The status of the 37 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Epistephium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	22	59.5%
◕	Synonym	14	37.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	2.7%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid

The confidence with which the status of the 33 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Epistephium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	22	9	0	0	31	93.9%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	3.0%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	1	1	3.0%

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