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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Physalis

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Physalis acutifolia (Miers) Sandwith	Accepted		TRO
Physalis aggregata Waterf.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis alkekengi L.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis amphitricha (Bitter) Standl. & Steyerm.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis ampla Waterf.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis angulata L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Physalis angustior Waterf.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis angustiphysa Waterf.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis arborescens L.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis campanula Standl. & Steyerm.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis campechiana L.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis carnosa Standl. & Steyerm.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis caudella Standl.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis cinerascens (Dunal) Hitchc.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis cordata Mill.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis coztomatl Dunal	Accepted		TRO
Physalis crassifolia Benth.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis fendleri A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Physalis geniculata (M. Martens & Galeotti) Miers	Accepted		TRO
Physalis glabra Benth.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis glutinosa Schltdl.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis gracilis Miers	Accepted		TRO
Physalis greenmanii Waterf.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis grisea (Waterf.) M. Martínez	Accepted		TRO
Physalis hastatula Waterf.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis hederifolia A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Physalis heterophylla Nees	Accepted		TRO
Physalis hintonii Waterf.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis hirsuta Dunal	Accepted		TRO
Physalis hispida (Waterf.) Cronquist	Accepted		TRO
Physalis ignota Britton	Accepted		TRO
Physalis ingrata Standl.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis lagascae Roem. & Schult.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Physalis lassa Standl. & Steyerm.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis latiphysa Waterf.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis lignescens Waterf.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis lobata Torr.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis longiloba O. Vargas, M. Martínez & Dávila	Accepted		TRO
Physalis longipedicellata Waterf.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis mcvaughii Waterf.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis melanocystis (B.L. Rob.) Bitter	Accepted		TRO
Physalis microcarpa Urb. & Ekman	Accepted		TRO
Physalis microphysa A. Gray	Accepted		TRO
Physalis minimaculata Waterf.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis minuta Griggs	Accepted		TRO
Physalis mollis Nutt.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis muelleri Waterf.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis neomexicana Rydb.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis nicandroides Schltdl.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis orizabae Dunal	Accepted		TRO
Physalis patula Mill.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis pennellii Waterf.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis peruviana L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Physalis philadelphica Lam.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis philippensis Fernald	Accepted		TRO
Physalis pringlei Greenm.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis pruinosa L.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis pubescens L.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis queretaroensis M. Martínez & L. Hern.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis sancti-josephii Dunal	Accepted		TRO
Physalis solanacea (Schltdl.) Axelius	Accepted		TRO
Physalis sordida Fernald	Accepted		TRO
Physalis stapelioides (Regel) Bitter	Accepted		TRO
Physalis subrepens Waterf.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis sulphurea (Fernald) Waterf.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis tamayoi O. Vargas, M. Martínez & Dávila	Accepted		TRO
Physalis tehuacanensis Waterf.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis virginiana Mill.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis viscosa L.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis volubilis Waterf.	Accepted		TRO
Physalis waterfallii O. Vargas, M. Martínez & Dávila	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 298 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Physalis. Of these 71 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 71 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Physalis. 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 298 species names for the genus Physalis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	71	23.8%
◕	Synonym	108	36.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	119	39.9%

All names

The status of the 369 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Physalis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	93	25.2%
◕	Synonym	153	41.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	123	33.3%

The confidence with which the status of the 298 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Physalis, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	71	106	0	0	177	59.4%
	Low confidence	0	2	0	119	121	40.6%

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