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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Echinospermum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Echinospermum calycosum (Rydb.) K. Schum.	Accepted		TRO
Echinospermum cenchrusoides (A. Nelson) K. Schum.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 132 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Echinospermum. Of these 2 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 12 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Echinospermum. 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 132 species names for the genus Echinospermum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	1.5%
◕	Synonym	55	41.7%
◕	Unplaced	2	1.5%
◕	Unassessed	73	55.3%

All names

The status of the 144 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Echinospermum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	1.4%
◕	Synonym	62	43.1%
◕	Unplaced	2	1.4%
◕	Unassessed	78	54.2%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 132 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Echinospermum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	2	42	0	0	44	33.3%
	Low confidence	0	13	2	73	88	66.7%

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