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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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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Ephedra alata Decne.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Ephedra altissima Desf.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra americana Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra antisyphilitica Berland. ex C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra aphylla Forssk.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra × arenicola H.C.Cutler	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra aspera Engelm. ex S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra aurantiaca Takht. & Pachom.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra boelckei F.A.Roig	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra botschantzevii Pachom.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra breana Phil.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra brevifoliata Ghahr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra californica S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra chilensis C.Presl	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra compacta Rose	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra coryi E.L.Reed	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra cutleri Peebles	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra dahurica Turcz.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra dawuensis Y.Yang	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra distachya L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Ephedra × eleutherolepis V.A.Nikitin	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra equisetina Bunge	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra fasciculata A.Nelson	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra fedtschenkoae Paulsen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra foeminea Forssk.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra foliata Boiss. ex C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra fragilis Desf.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra frustillata Miers	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra funerea Coville & C.V.Morton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra gerardiana Wall. ex Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Ephedra gerardiana Wall. ex C.A. Mey.	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Ephedra glauca Regel	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra holoptera Riedl	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra intermedia Schrenk & C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra × intermixta H.C.Cutler	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra kardangensis P.Sharma & P.L.Uniyal	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra khurikensis P.Sharma & P.L.Uniyal	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra laristanica Assadi	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra likiangensis Florin	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Ephedra lomatolepis Schrenk	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra major Host	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	2
Ephedra milleri Freitag & Maier-St.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra minuta Florin	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra monosperma J.G.Gmel. ex C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra multiflora Phil. ex Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra nevadensis S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra ochreata Miers	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra oxyphylla Riedl	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra pachyclada Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Ephedra pedunculata Engelm. ex S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra pentandra Pachom.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra przewalskii Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra pseudodistachya Pachom.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra regeliana Florin	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra rhytidosperma Pachom.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra rituensis Y.Yang, D.Z.Fu & G.H.Zhu	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra rupestris Benth.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra sarcocarpa Aitch. & Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra sinica Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra somalensis Freitag & Maier-St.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra strobilacea Bunge	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Ephedra sumlingensis P.Sharma & P.L.Uniyal	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra tilhoana Maire	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra torreyana S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra transitoria Riedl	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra triandra Tul.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra trifurca Torr. ex S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra trifurcata Zöllner	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra trifurcata Zoellner	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Ephedra tweedieana C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra viridis Coville	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Ephedra vvedenskyi Pachom.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 164 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Ephedra. Of these 70 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 84 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 164 species names for the genus Ephedra recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	70	42.7%
◕	Synonym	92	56.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	1.2%

All names

The status of the 248 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Ephedra recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	78	31.5%
◕	Synonym	168	67.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	0.8%

Of the species 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 164 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Ephedra, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	70	90	0	0	160	97.6%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	1.2%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	2	2	1.2%

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