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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Echium

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Echium aculeatum Poir.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium albicans Lag. & Rodr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium amoenum Fisch. & C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium anchusoides Bacch., Brullo & Selvi	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium angustifolium Mill.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium arenarium Guss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium asperrimum Lam.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium auberianum Webb & Berthel.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium bethencourtii A.Santos	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium biebersteinii Lacaita	Accepted		TRO
Echium boissieri Steud.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium bonnetii Coincy	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium brevirame Sprague & Hutch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium callithyrsum Webb ex Bolle	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium candicans L.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium canum Emb. & Maire	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium creticum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium decaisnei Webb & Berthel.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium flavum Desf.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium gaditanum Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium giganteum L.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium glomeratum Poir.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium handiense Svent.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium hierrense Webb ex Bolle	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium horridum Batt.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium humile Desf.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium hypertropicum Webb	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium italicum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium judaeum Lacaita	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium khuzistanicum Mozaff.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium × lemsii G.Kunkel	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium leucophaeum (H.Christ) Webb ex Sprague & Hutch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium longifolium Delile	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium lusitanicum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium modestum Ball	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium nervosum Dryand.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium onosmifolium Webb & Berthel.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium orientale L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium pabotii Mouterde	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium parviflorum Moench	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium petiolatum Barratte & Coincy	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium pininana Webb & Berthel.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium pitardii A.Chev.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium plantagineum L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium rauwolfii Delile	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium rosulatum Lange	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium rubrum Forssk.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium sabulicola Pomel	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium salmanticum Lag.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium simplex DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium spurium Lojac.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium stenosiphon Webb	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium strictum L.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium suffruticosum Barratte	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium sventenii Bramwell	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium × taibiquense P.Wolff & Rosinski	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium tenue Roth	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium thyrsiflorum Masson ex Link	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium triste Svent.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium tuberculatum Hoffmanns. & Link	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium velutinum Coincy	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium virescens DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium vulcanorum A.Chev.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium vulgare L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium webbii Coincy	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Echium wildpretii H.Pearson ex Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 383 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Echium. Of these 66 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 92 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Echium. 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 383 species names for the genus Echium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	66	17.2%
◕	Synonym	210	54.8%
◕	Unplaced	36	9.4%
◕	Unassessed	71	18.5%

All names

The status of the 475 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Echium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	94	19.8%
◕	Synonym	273	57.5%
◕	Unplaced	36	7.6%
◕	Unassessed	72	15.2%

Of these names,

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

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

The confidence with which the status of the 383 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Echium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	65	184	0	0	249	65.0%
	Low confidence	1	26	36	71	134	35.0%

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