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The genus Cyanotis is in the family Commelinaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cyanotis

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Cyanotis adscendens Dalzell	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis ake-assii Brenan	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis angusta C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis arachnoidea C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis arcotensis R.S.Rao	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis axillaris (L.) D.Don ex Sweet	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis barbata D.Don	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis beddomei (Hook.f.) Erhardt, Götz & Seybold	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis burmanniana Wight	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis caespitosa Kotschy & Peyr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis cerifolia R.S.Rao & Kammathy	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis ceylanica Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis cristata (L.) D.Don	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis cucullata (Roth) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis cupricola J.Duvign.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis dybowskii Hua	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis fasciculata (B.Heyne ex Roth) Schult. & Schult.f.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis flexuosa C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis foecunda DC. ex Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis ganganensis Schnell	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis grandidieri H.Perrier	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis hepperi Brenan	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis homblei De Wild.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis incerta Hassk.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis karliana Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis lanata Benth.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis lapidosa E.Phillips	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis longifolia Benth.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	2
Cyanotis loureiroana (Schult. & Schult.f.) Merr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis lourensis Schnell	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis minima De Wild.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis nilagirica Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis nyctitropa Deflers	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis obtusa (Trimen) Trimen	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis pachyrrhiza Oberm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis paludosa Brenan	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis papilionacea (Burm.f.) Schult. & Schult.f.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis pauciflora A.Rich.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis pedunculata Merr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis pilosa Schult. & Schult.f.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis polyrrhiza Hochst. ex Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis racemosa B.Heyne ex Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis repens Faden & D.M.Cameron	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Cyanotis reutiana Beauverd	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis robusta Oberm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis scaberula Hutch.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis sericea Hassk.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis simplicicaulis Domin	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis somaliensis C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis speciosa (L.f.) Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis thwaitesii Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis tuberosa (Roxb.) Schult. & Schult.f.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis vaga (Lour.) Schult. & Schult.f.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis vaginata Wight	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Cyanotis villosa (Spreng.) Schult. & Schult.f.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 176 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cyanotis. Of these 52 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 18 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cyanotis. 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 176 species names for the genus Cyanotis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	52	29.5%
◕	Synonym	121	68.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	1.7%

All names

The status of the 194 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cyanotis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	55	28.4%
◕	Synonym	136	70.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	1.5%

Of the species names,

• 4 are recorded as invalid
• 9 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 176 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cyanotis, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	52	120	0	0	172	97.7%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	1	0	3	4	2.3%

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