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The genus Acanthus is in the family Acanthaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Acanthus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Acanthus arboreus Forssk.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus austromontanus Vollesen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus carduaceus Griff.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus caudatus Lindau	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus dioscoridis L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus ebracteatus Vahl	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus eminens C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus flexicaulis Bremek	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus gaed Lindau	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus greuterianus Snogerup, B.Snogerup & Strid	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus guineensis Heine & P.Taylor	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus hirsutus Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus hungaricus (Borbás) Baen.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus ilicifolius L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus kulalensis Vollesen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus latisepalus C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus leucostachyus Wall. ex Nees	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus longibracteatus Kurz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus mayaccanus Büttner	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus mollis L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus montanus (Nees) T.Anderson	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus polystachius Delile	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus sennii Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus seretii De Wild.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus spinosus L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus ueleensis De Wild.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus villaeanus De Wild.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus volubilis Wall.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Acanthus xiamenensis R.T.Zhang	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 88 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Acanthus. Of these 29 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 18 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Acanthus. 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 88 species names for the genus Acanthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	29	33.0%
◕	Synonym	50	56.8%
◕	Unplaced	4	4.5%
◕	Unassessed	5	5.7%

All names

The status of the 106 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Acanthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	32	30.2%
◕	Synonym	64	60.4%
◕	Unplaced	4	3.8%
◕	Unassessed	6	5.7%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 88 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Acanthus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	28	44	0	0	72	81.8%
	Low confidence	1	6	4	5	16	18.2%

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