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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cosmos

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Cosmos atrosanguineus (Hook.) Voss	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos atrosanguineus Stapf	Unresolved		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos bipinnatus Cav.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos carvifolius Benth.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos caudatus Kunth	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos concolor Sherff	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos crithmifolius Kunth	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos deficiens (Sherff) Melchert	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos dissecta S.Watson	Unresolved		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos diversifolius Otto ex Otto	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11	1
Cosmos gracilis Sherff	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos herzogii Sherff	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos hybridus Hort.	Unresolved		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos intercedens Sherff	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos jaliscensis Sherff	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos juxtlahuacensis Panero & Villaseñor	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos landii Sherff	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos langlassei (Sherff) Sherff	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos linearifolius (Sch.Bip.) Hemsl.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos longipetiolatus Melchert	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos mattfeldii Sherff	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos mcvaughii Sherff	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos microcephalus Sherff	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos modestus Sherff	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos montanus Sherff	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos nelsonii B.L.Rob. & Fernald	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos nitidus Paray	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos ochroleucoflorus Melchert	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos pacificus Melchert	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos palmeri B.L.Rob.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos parviflorus (Jacq.) Pers.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos peucedanifolius Wedd.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11	2
Cosmos peucedanthifolius Wedd.	Unresolved		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos pilosus Kunth	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos pringlei B.L.Rob. & Fernald	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos purpurens Sherff	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos purpureus (DC.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Hemsl.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos reptans Benth.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos roseus Mart. ex Steud.	Unresolved		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos scabiosoides Kunth	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos schaffneri Sherff	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos scherfii Melchert	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos sessilis Sherff	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11	1
Cosmos sherffii Melchert	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos × spectabilis Hort.	Unresolved		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos steenisiae Veldkamp	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos sulphureus Cav.	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11
Cosmos tenellus Kunth	Accepted		TICA	2012-02-11

Statistics

The Plant List includes 113 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cosmos. Of these 42 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 59 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cosmos. 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 113 species names for the genus Cosmos recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	42	37.2%
◕	Synonym	63	55.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	8	7.1%

All names

The status of the 172 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cosmos recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	46	26.7%
◕	Synonym	118	68.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	8	4.7%

Of the species names,

• 9 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 113 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cosmos, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	40	59	0	0	99	87.6%
	Low confidence	2	4	0	8	14	12.4%

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