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The genus Roscoea is in the family Zingiberaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Roscoea

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Roscoea alpina Royle	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea auriculata K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea australis Cowley	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea × beesiana Cowley & C.Whitehouse	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea bhutanica Ngamr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea brandisii (King ex Baker) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea cangshanensis M.H.Luo, X.F.Gao & H.H.Lin	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea capitata Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea cautleyoides Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea debilis Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26	1
Roscoea forrestii Cowley	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea ganeshensis Cowley & W.J.Baker	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea humeana Balf.f. & W.W.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea kunmingensis S.Q.Tong	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea nepalensis Cowley	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea ngainoi A.A.Mao & Bhaumik	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea praecox K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea purpurea Sm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea schneideriana (Loes.) Cowley	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea scillifolia (Gagnep.) Cowley	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea tibetica Batalin	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea tumjensis Cowley	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Roscoea wardii Cowley	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26

Statistics

The Plant List includes 35 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Roscoea. Of these 22 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 41 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Roscoea. 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 35 species names for the genus Roscoea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	22	62.9%
◕	Synonym	12	34.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	2.9%

All names

The status of the 76 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Roscoea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	23	30.3%
◕	Synonym	52	68.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.3%

Of the species names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 35 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Roscoea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	22	12	0	0	34	97.1%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	1	1	2.9%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Roscoea is as follows: