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Arctium

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

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:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
TICA 18 211 0 15 0 244 100%