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The genus Arctium is in the family Compositae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Arctium

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Arctium × ambiguum (Čelak.) Nyman	Accepted		TICA
Arctium atlanticum (Pomel) H.Lindb.	Accepted		TICA
Arctium × batavum Arènes	Accepted		TICA
Arctium × bretonii Rouy	Accepted		TICA
Arctium debrayi Senay	Accepted		TICA
Arctium lappa L.	Accepted		TICA
Arctium leiobardanum Juz. & c.serg. ex Stepanov	Accepted		TICA
Arctium minus (Hill) Bernh.	Accepted		TICA
Arctium × mixtum (Simonk.) Nyman	Accepted		TICA
Arctium neumani (Rouy) Rouy	Accepted		TICA
Arctium × nothum (Ruhmer) J.Weiss	Accepted		TICA
Arctium palladini (Marcow.)	Accepted		TICA
Arctium palladinii Grossh.	Accepted		TICA
Arctium platylepis Sosn. ex Grossh.	Accepted		TICA
Arctium pseudarctium (Bornm.) Duist.	Accepted		TICA
Arctium sardaimionense Rassulova & B.A.Sharipova	Accepted		TICA
Arctium scanicum (Rouy) Rouy	Accepted		TICA
Arctium tomentosum Mill.	Accepted		TICA

Statistics

The Plant List includes 244 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Arctium. Of these 18 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 17 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Arctium. 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 244 species names for the genus Arctium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	18	7.4%
◕	Synonym	211	86.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	15	6.1%

All names

The status of the 261 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Arctium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	20	7.7%
◕	Synonym	226	86.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	15	5.7%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 244 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Arctium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	15	192	0	0	207	84.8%
	Low confidence	3	19	0	15	37	15.2%

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