The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Bombax

The genus Bombax is in the family Malvaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Bombax

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Bombax albidum Gagnep. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Bombax anceps Pierre Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Bombax blancoanum A.Robyns Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Bombax buonopozense P.Beauv. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Bombax ceiba L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Bombax costatum Pellegr. & Vuillet Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Bombax insigne Wall. Accepted M WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 171 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Bombax. Of these 7 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 31 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Bombax. 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 171 species names for the genus Bombax recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 7 4.1%
Synonym 133 77.8%
Unplaced 10 5.8%
Unassessed 21 12.3%

All names

The status of the 202 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Bombax recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 8 4.0%
Synonym 161 79.7%
Unplaced 10 5.0%
Unassessed 23 11.4%

Of these names,

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 171 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Bombax, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 7 128 0 0 135 78.9%
Low confidence 0 5 10 21 36 21.1%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 10 0 2 0 12 7.0%
WCSP (in review) 7 123 10 19 1 160 93.6%