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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Crossandra

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Crossandra acutiloba Vollesen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra albolineata Benoist	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra angolensis S.Moore	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra arenicola Vollesen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra armandii Benoist	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra baccarinii Fiori	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra benoistii Vollesen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra cinnabarina Vollesen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra cloiselii S.Moore	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra douillotii Benoist	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra flava Hook.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra flavicaulis Vollesen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra friesiorum Mildbr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra fruticulosa Lindau	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra grandidieri (Baill.) Benoist	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra greenstockii S.Moore	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra horrida Vollesen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra humbertii Benoist	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra infundibuliformis (L.) Nees	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra isaloensis Vollesen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra johanninae Fiori	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra leikipiensis Schweinf.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra leucodonta Vollesen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra longehirsuta Vollesen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra longipes S.Moore	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra longispica Benoist	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra massaica Mildbr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra mucronata Lindau	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra multidentata Vollesen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra nilotica Oliv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra nobilis Benoist	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra obanensis Heine	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra pilosa (Benoist) Vollesen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra pinguior S.Moore	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra poissonii Benoist	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra praecox Vollesen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra primuloides Lindau	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra puberula Klotzsch	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra pungens Lindau	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra pyrophila Vollesen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra quadridentata Benoist	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra raripila Benoist	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra rupestris Benoist	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra spinescens Dunkley	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra spinosa Beck	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra stenandrium (Nees) Lindau	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra stenostachya (Lindau) C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra strobilifera (Lam.) Benoist	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra subacaulis C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra sulphurea G.Taylor	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra tridentata Lindau	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra tsingyensis Vollesen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra vestita Benoist	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Crossandra zuluensis W.T.Vos & T.J.Edwards	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 86 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Crossandra. Of these 54 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 15 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Crossandra. 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 86 species names for the genus Crossandra recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	54	62.8%
◕	Synonym	24	27.9%
◕	Unplaced	1	1.2%
◕	Unassessed	7	8.1%

All names

The status of the 101 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Crossandra recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	56	55.4%
◕	Synonym	37	36.6%
◕	Unplaced	1	1.0%
◕	Unassessed	7	6.9%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 86 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Crossandra, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	54	23	0	0	77	89.5%
	Low confidence	0	1	1	7	9	10.5%

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