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The genus Asteriscus is in the family Compositae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Asteriscus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Asteriscus aquaticus (L.) Less.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Asteriscus daltonii (Webb) Walp.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Asteriscus graveolens (Forssk.) Less.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11	2
Asteriscus imbricatus (Cav.) DC.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Asteriscus intermedius (DC.) Pit. & Proust	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Asteriscus pinifolius Maire & Wilczek	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Asteriscus schultzii (Bolle) Pit. & Proust	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Asteriscus sericeus (L.f.) DC.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Asteriscus smithii (Webb) Walp.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Asteriscus vogelii (Webb) Walp.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11	1

Statistics

The Plant List includes 60 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Asteriscus. Of these 10 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 43 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Asteriscus. 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 60 species names for the genus Asteriscus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	10	16.7%
◕	Synonym	46	76.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	4	6.7%

All names

The status of the 103 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Asteriscus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	13	12.6%
◕	Synonym	83	80.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	7	6.8%

Of the species names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 3 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 60 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Asteriscus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	10	42	0	0	52	86.7%
	Low confidence	0	4	0	4	8	13.3%

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