The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Celosia

The genus Celosia is in the family Amaranthaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Celosia

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Celosia angustifolia Schinz Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia anthelminthica Asch. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia argentea L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia bakeri C.C.Towns. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia baronii Cavaco Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia benguellensis C.C.Towns. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia boivinii Hook.f. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia bonnivairii Schinz Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia brasiliensis Moq. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia brevispicata C.C.Towns. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia chenopodiifolia Baker Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia chiapensis Brandegee Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia corymbifera Didr. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia elegantissima Hauman Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia expansifila C.C.Towns. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia fadenorum C.C.Towns. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia floribunda A.Gray Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia globosa Schinz Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia grandifolia Moq. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia hastata Lopr. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia humbertiana Cavaco Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia isertii C.C.Towns. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia leptostachya Benth. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia loandensis Baker Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia longifolia Mart. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia madagascariensis Poir. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia micrantha Baker Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia monosperma Rose Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia moquinii Guill. ex Moq. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia nervosa C.C.Towns. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia nitida Vahl Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia orcuttii Greenm. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia palmeri S.Watson Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia pandurata Baker Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia patentiloba C.C.Towns. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia persicaria Schinz Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia polygonoides Retz. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia polystachia (Forssk.) C.C.Towns. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia pseudovirgata Schinz Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia pulchella Moq. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia richardsiae C.C.Towns. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia salicifolia Lopr. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia schweinfurthiana Schinz Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia spicata Spreng. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia staticodes Hiern Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia stuhlmanniana Schinz Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia taitoensis Hayata Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia trigyna L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia triuncinella Schinz Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia vanderystii Schinz Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Celosia virgata Jacq. Accepted M WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 184 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Celosia. Of these 51 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 17 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Celosia. 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 184 species names for the genus Celosia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 51 27.7%
Synonym 94 51.1%
Unplaced 21 11.4%
Unassessed 18 9.8%

All names

The status of the 201 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Celosia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 51 25.4%
Synonym 111 55.2%
Unplaced 21 10.4%
Unassessed 18 9.0%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 184 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Celosia, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 51 84 0 0 135 73.4%
Low confidence 0 10 21 18 49 26.6%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 4 0 1 0 5 2.7%
WCSP (in review) 51 90 21 17 0 179 97.3%