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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Spiranthes

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Spiranthes aestivalis (Poir.) Rich.	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes alticola D.L.Jones	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes angustilabris J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes brevilabris Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes casei Catling & Cruise	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes cernua (L.) Rich.	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes delitescens Sheviak	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes diluvialis Sheviak	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes × eamesii P.M.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes eatonii Ames ex P.M.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes graminea Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes hongkongensis S.Y.Hu & Barretto	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes infernalis Sheviak	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes × intermedia Ames	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes × itchetuckneensis P.M.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes lacera (Raf.) Raf.	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes laciniata (Small) Ames	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes longilabris Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes lucida (H.H.Eaton) Ames	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes magnicamporum Sheviak	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes nebulorum Catling & V.R.Catling	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes ochroleuca (Rydb.) Rydb.	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes odorata (Nutt.) Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes ovalis Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes parksii Correll	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes porrifolia Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes praecox (Walter) S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes pusilla (Blume) Miq.	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes romanzoffiana Cham.	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes × simpsonii Catling & Sheviak	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes sinensis (Pers.) Ames	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes spiralis (L.) Chevall.	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes sunii Boufford & Wen H.Zhang	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes sylvatica P.M.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes torta (Thunb.) Garay & H.R.Sweet	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes tuberosa Raf.	Accepted		WCSP
Spiranthes vernalis Engelm. & A.Gray	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 440 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Spiranthes. Of these 37 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 65 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Spiranthes. 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 440 species names for the genus Spiranthes recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	37	8.4%
◕	Synonym	381	86.6%
◕	Unplaced	3	0.7%
◕	Unassessed	19	4.3%

All names

The status of the 505 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Spiranthes recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	40	7.9%
◕	Synonym	442	87.5%
◕	Unplaced	3	0.6%
◕	Unassessed	20	4.0%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 23 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 440 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Spiranthes, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	37	358	0	0	395	89.8%
	Medium confidence	0	21	0	0	21	4.8%
	Low confidence	0	2	3	19	24	5.5%

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