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The genus Anchusa is in the family Boraginaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Anchusa

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Anchusa aegyptica (L.) A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa affinis R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa arvensis (L.) M.Bieb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa aucheri A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa azurea Mill.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa calcarea Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa capensis Thunb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa cespitosa Lam.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa cretica Mill.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa crispa Viv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa × digenea Gusul.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa dinsmorei Rech.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa formosa Selvi, Bigazzi & Bacch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa gmelinii Ledeb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa humilis (Desf.) I.M.Johnst.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa iranica Rech.f. & Esfand.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa leptophylla Roem. & Schult.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa leucantha Selvi & Bigazzi	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa limbata Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa milleri Lam. ex Spreng.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa montelinasana Angius, Pontec. & Selvi	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa negevensis Danin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa ochroleuca M.Bieb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa officinalis L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa procera Besser ex Link	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa pseudoochroleuca Des.-Shost.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa puechii Valdés	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa pusilla Gusul.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa samothracica Bigazzi & Selvi	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa strigosa Banks & Sol.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa stylosa M.Bieb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa thessala Boiss. & Spruner	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa × thirkeana Gusul.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa tiberiadis Post	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa undulata L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Anchusa variegata (L.) Lehm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 232 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Anchusa. Of these 36 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 53 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Anchusa. 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 232 species names for the genus Anchusa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	36	15.5%
◕	Synonym	147	63.4%
◕	Unplaced	22	9.5%
◕	Unassessed	27	11.6%

All names

The status of the 285 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Anchusa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	50	17.5%
◕	Synonym	186	65.3%
◕	Unplaced	22	7.7%
◕	Unassessed	27	9.5%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 7 are recorded as illegitimate

A further 3 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 232 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Anchusa, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	35	120	0	0	155	66.8%
	Low confidence	1	27	22	27	77	33.2%

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