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The genus Mertensia is in the family Boraginaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Mertensia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Mertensia bracteata (Willd. ex Schult.) Kamelin	Accepted		TRO
Mertensia ciliata (James ex Torr.) G. Don	Accepted		TRO
Mertensia corymbosa (Lehm.) G. Don	Accepted		TRO
Mertensia davurica (Sims) G. Don	Accepted		TRO
Mertensia denticulata (Lehm.) G. Don	Accepted		TRO
Mertensia dshagastanica Regel	Accepted		TRO
Mertensia echioides (Benth.) Benth. & Hook. f.	Accepted		TRO
Mertensia jenissejensis Popov	Accepted		TRO
Mertensia marginata (Nutt.) G. Don	Accepted		TRO
Mertensia maritima (L.) Gray	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Mertensia mexicana L.O. Williams	Accepted		TRO
Mertensia meyeriana J.F. Macbr.	Accepted		TRO
Mertensia pallasii (Ledeb.) G. Don	Accepted		TRO
Mertensia pilosa (Cham.) G. Don	Accepted		TRO
Mertensia platensis (Rydb.) Rydb.	Accepted		TRO
Mertensia sibirica (L.) G. Don	Accepted		TRO
Mertensia simplicissima G. Don fil.	Accepted		TRO
Mertensia tarbagataica B. Fedtsch.	Accepted		TRO
Mertensia viridis (A. Nelson) A. Nelson	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 177 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Mertensia. Of these 19 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 57 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Mertensia. 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 177 species names for the genus Mertensia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	19	10.7%
◕	Synonym	46	26.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	112	63.3%

All names

The status of the 234 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Mertensia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	28	12.0%
◕	Synonym	63	26.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	143	61.1%

The confidence with which the status of the 177 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Mertensia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	19	42	0	0	61	34.5%
	Low confidence	0	4	0	112	116	65.5%

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