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The genus Ephedra is in the family Ephedraceae in the major group Gymnosperms (Conifers, cycads and allies).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Ephedra

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Ephedra alata Decne.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra altissima Desf.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra americana Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra antisyphilitica Berland. ex C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra aphylla Forssk.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra × arenicola H.C.Cutler	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra aspera Engelm. ex S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra aurantiaca Takht. & Pachom.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra boelckei F.A.Roig	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra botschantzevii Pachom.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra breana Phil.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra brevifoliata Ghahr.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra californica S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra chilensis C.Presl	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra compacta Rose	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra coryi E.L.Reed	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra cutleri Peebles	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra dahurica Turcz.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra dawuensis Y.Yang	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra distachya L.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra × eleutherolepis V.A.Nikitin	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra equisetina Bunge	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra fasciculata A.Nelson	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra fedtschenkoae Paulsen	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra foeminea Forssk.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra foliata Boiss. ex C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra fragilis Desf.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra frustillata Miers	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra funerea Coville & C.V.Morton	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra gerardiana Wall. ex Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra glauca Regel	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra holoptera Riedl	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra intermedia Schrenk & C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra × intermixta H.C.Cutler	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra laristanica Assadi	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra likiangensis Florin	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra lomatolepis Schrenk	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra major Host	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra milleri Freitag & Maier-St.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra minuta Florin	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra monosperma J.G.Gmel. ex C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra multiflora Phil. ex Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra nevadensis S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra ochreata Miers	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra oxyphylla Riedl	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra pachyclada Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra pedunculata Engelm. ex S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra pentandra Pachom.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra przewalskii Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra pseudodistachya Pachom.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra regeliana Florin	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra rhytidosperma Pachom.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra rituensis Y.Yang, D.Z.Fu & G.H.Zhu	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra rupestris Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra sarcocarpa Aitch. & Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra sinica Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra somalensis Freitag & Maier-St.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra strobilacea Bunge	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra tilhoana Maire	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra torreyana S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra transitoria Riedl	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra triandra Tul.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra trifurca Torr. ex S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra trifurcata Zöllner	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra tweediana C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra viridis Coville	Accepted		WCSP
Ephedra vvedenskyi Pachom.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 157 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Ephedra. Of these 67 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 79 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Ephedra. 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 157 species names for the genus Ephedra recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	67	42.7%
◕	Synonym	88	56.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	1.3%

All names

The status of the 236 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Ephedra recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	80	33.9%
◕	Synonym	154	65.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	0.8%

Of these names,

• 4 are recorded as invalid
• 8 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 157 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Ephedra, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	67	87	0	0	154	98.1%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	0.6%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	2	2	1.3%

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