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The genus Zostera is in the family Zosteraceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Zostera

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Zostera angustifolia (Hornem.) Rchb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Zostera asiatica Miki	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Zostera caespitosa Miki	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Zostera capensis Setch.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Zostera capricorni Asch.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Zostera caulescens Miki	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Zostera chilensis (J.Kuo) S.W.L.Jacobs & Les	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Zostera dubia E.H.L.Krause	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-26
Zostera geojeensis H. Shin, Cho & Y.S. Oh	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Zostera japonica Asch. & Graebn.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Zostera marina L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Zostera mucronata Hartog	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Zostera muelleri Irmisch ex Asch.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Zostera nigricaulis (J.Kuo) S.W.L.Jacobs & Les	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Zostera noltii Hornem.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Zostera novazelandica Setch.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Zostera polychlamys (J.Kuo) S.W.L.Jacobs & Les	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Zostera tasmanica M.Martens ex Asch.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26

Statistics

The Plant List includes 46 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Zostera. Of these 16 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 16 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Zostera. 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 46 species names for the genus Zostera recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	34.8%
◕	Synonym	28	60.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	4.3%

All names

The status of the 62 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Zostera recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	25.8%
◕	Synonym	44	71.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	3.2%

Of the species names,

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

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

The confidence with which the status of the 46 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Zostera, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	16	28	0	0	44	95.7%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	2	2	4.3%

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