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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Clinacanthus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Clinacanthus nutans (Burm.f.) Lindau	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Clinacanthus spirei Benoist	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 5 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Clinacanthus. Of these 2 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Clinacanthus. 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 5 species names for the genus Clinacanthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	40.0%
◕	Synonym	2	40.0%
◕	Unplaced	1	20.0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 6 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Clinacanthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	33.3%
◕	Synonym	3	50.0%
◕	Unplaced	1	16.7%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 5 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Clinacanthus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	1	0	0	0	1	20.0%
	Low confidence	1	2	1	0	4	80.0%

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