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The genus Nicotiana is in the family Solanaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Nicotiana

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Nicotiana acaulis Speg.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana acuminata (Graham) Hook.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana alata Link & Otto	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana ameghinoi Speg.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana arentsii Goodsp.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana attenuata R.E. Torr. ex S. Watson	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana azambujae L.B. Sm. & Downs	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana benavidesii Goodspeed	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana bonariensis Lehm.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana clevelandii A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana cordifolia Phil.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana excelsior (Black) Black	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana forgetiana hort. ex Hemsl.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana glauca Graham	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana glutinosa L.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana knightiana Goodspeed	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana langsdorfii Schrank	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana linearis Phil.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana longibracteata Phil.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana longiflora Cav.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana miersii J. Rémy	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana mutabilis Stehmann & Semir	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana noctiflora Hook.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana obtusifolia M. Martens & Galeotti	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana otophora Griseb.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana paa Mart.-Crov.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana palmeri A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana paniculata L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nicotiana pauciflora J. Rémy	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana petunioides (Griseb.) Millán	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana plumbaginifolia Viv.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana raimondii J.F. Macbr.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana repanda Lehm.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana rosulata (Moore) Domin	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana rustica L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nicotiana × sanderae W. Watson	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana setchellii Goodspeed	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana solanifolia Walp.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nicotiana sylvestris Speg. & S. Comes	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana tabacum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nicotiana thyrsiflora Goodsp.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana tomentosa Ruiz & Pav.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana trigonophylla Dunal	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana undulata Ruiz & Pav.	Accepted		TRO
Nicotiana wigandioides Koch & Fintelmann	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 257 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Nicotiana. Of these 45 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 42 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Nicotiana. 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 257 species names for the genus Nicotiana recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	45	17.5%
◕	Synonym	63	24.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	149	58.0%

All names

The status of the 299 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Nicotiana recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	56	18.7%
◕	Synonym	86	28.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	157	52.5%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 257 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Nicotiana, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	44	63	0	0	107	41.6%
	Low confidence	1	0	0	149	150	58.4%

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