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The genus Pontederia is in the family Pontederiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pontederia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Pontederia cordata L.	Accepted		WCSP
Pontederia parviflora Alexander	Accepted		WCSP
Pontederia rotundifolia L.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Pontederia sagittata C.Presl	Accepted		WCSP
Pontederia subovata (Seub.) Lowden	Accepted		WCSP
Pontederia triflora (Seub.) G.Agostini, D.Velázquez & J.Velásquez	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 58 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pontederia. Of these 6 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 21 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pontederia. 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 58 species names for the genus Pontederia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	10.3%
◕	Synonym	48	82.8%
◕	Unplaced	3	5.2%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.7%

All names

The status of the 79 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pontederia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	7.6%
◕	Synonym	69	87.3%
◕	Unplaced	3	3.8%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.3%

Of these names,

• 5 are recorded as invalid
• 5 are recorded as illegitimate
• 3 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 58 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pontederia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	6	46	0	0	52	89.7%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	3.4%
	Low confidence	0	0	3	1	4	6.9%

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