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The genus Cheirostylis is in the family Orchidaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cheirostylis

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cheirostylis bidentata J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis bipunctata Aver.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis calcarata X.H.Jin & S.C.Chen	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis celebensis P.O'Byrne & J.J.Verm.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis chinensis Rolfe	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis clibborndyeri S.Y.Hu & Baretto	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis cochinchinensis Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis dendrophila Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis didymacantha Seidenf.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis divina (Guinea) Summerh.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis filipetala Aver.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis flabellata (A.Rich.) Wight	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis foliosa Aver.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis goldschmidtiana Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis grandiflora Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis griffithii Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis gunnarii A.N.Rao	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis inabai Hayata	Accepted		TRO
Cheirostylis jamesleungii S.Y.Hu & Barretto	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis javanica J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis kabaenae Ormerod	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis latipetala Aver. & Averyanova	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis lepida (Rchb.f.) Rolfe	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis liukiuensis Masam.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis malipoensis X.H.Jin & S.C.Chen	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis malleifera E.C.Parish & Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis marmorifolia Aver.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis merrillii (Ames & Quisumb.) Ormerod	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis moniliformis (Griff.) Seidenf.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis montana Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis monteiroi S.Y.Hu & Barretto	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis notialis D.L.Jones	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis nuda (Thouars) Ormerod	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis octodactyla Ames	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis okabeana Tuyama	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis orobanchoides (F.Muell.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis ovata (F.M.Bailey) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis parvifolia Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis pingbianensis K.Y.Lang	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis pubescens E.C.Parish & Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis pusilla Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis raymundii Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis seidenfadeniana Sath.Kumar & F.N.Rasm.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis serpens Aver.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis sessanica A.N.Rao	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis sherriffii N.Pearce & P.J.Cribb	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis spathulata J.J.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis tabiyahanensis (Hayata) N.Pearce & P.J.Cribb	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis takeoi (Hayata) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis thailandica Seidenf.	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis thanmoiensis (Gagnep.) Ormerod	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis tippica A.N.Rao	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis tortilacinia C.S.Leou	Accepted		WCSP
Cheirostylis yunnanensis Rolfe	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 85 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cheirostylis. Of these 54 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cheirostylis. 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 85 species names for the genus Cheirostylis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	54	63.5%
◕	Synonym	29	34.1%
◕	Unplaced	1	1.2%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.2%

All names

The status of the 87 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cheirostylis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	55	63.2%
◕	Synonym	30	34.5%
◕	Unplaced	1	1.1%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.1%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 85 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cheirostylis, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	53	28	0	0	81	95.3%
	Medium confidence	1	1	0	0	2	2.4%
	Low confidence	0	0	1	1	2	2.4%

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