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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Gerascanthus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Gerascanthus alliodorus (Ruiz & Pav.) Borhidi	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 180 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Gerascanthus. Of these 1 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 5 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Gerascanthus. 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 180 species names for the genus Gerascanthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1	0.6%
◕	Synonym	172	95.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	7	3.9%

All names

The status of the 185 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Gerascanthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1	0.5%
◕	Synonym	176	95.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	8	4.3%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 180 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Gerascanthus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	1	167	0	0	168	93.3%
	Low confidence	0	5	0	7	12	6.7%

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