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The genus Cyanotis is in the family Commelinaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cyanotis

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cyanotis adscendens Dalzell	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis ake-assii Brenan	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis angusta C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis arachnoidea C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis arcotensis R.S.Rao	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis axillaris (L.) D.Don ex Sweet	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis beddomei (Hook.f.) Govaerts	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis burmanniana Wight	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis caespitosa Kotschy & Peyr.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis cerifolia R.S.Rao & Kammathy	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis ceylanica Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis cristata (L.) D.Don	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis cucullata (Roth) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis cupricola J.Duvign.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis dybowskii Hua	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis fasciculata (B.Heyne ex Roth) Schult. & Schult.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis flexuosa C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis foecunda DC. ex Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis ganganensis Schnell	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis grandidieri H.Perrier	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis hepperi Brenan	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis homblei De Wild.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis karliana Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis lanata Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis lapidosa E.Phillips	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis longifolia Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis loureiroana (Schult. & Schult.f.) Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis lourensis Schnell	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis minima De Wild.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis nilagirica Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis nyctitropa Deflers	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis obtusa (Trimen) Trimen	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis pachyrrhiza Oberm.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis paludosa Brenan	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis papilionacea (Burm.f.) Schult. & Schult.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis pauciflora A.Rich.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis pedunculata Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis pilosa Schult. & Schult.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis polyrrhiza Hochst. ex Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis racemosa B.Heyne ex Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis repens Faden & D.M.Cameron	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis reutiana Beauverd	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis robusta Oberm.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis scaberula Hutch.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis somaliensis C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis speciosa (L.f.) Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis thwaitesii Hassk.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis tuberosa (Roxb.) Schult. & Schult.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis vaga (Lour.) Schult. & Schult.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis vaginata Wight	Accepted		WCSP
Cyanotis villosa (Spreng.) Schult. & Schult.f.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 112 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cyanotis. Of these 51 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 16 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cyanotis. 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 112 species names for the genus Cyanotis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	51	45.5%
◕	Synonym	58	51.8%
◕	Unplaced	3	2.7%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 128 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cyanotis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	55	43.0%
◕	Synonym	70	54.7%
◕	Unplaced	3	2.3%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 8 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 112 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cyanotis, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	51	57	0	0	108	96.4%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	0.9%
	Low confidence	0	0	3	0	3	2.7%

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