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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Asteriscus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Asteriscus aquaticus (L.) Less.	Accepted		TICA
Asteriscus daltonii (Webb) Walp.	Accepted		TICA
Asteriscus graveolens (Forssk.) Less.	Accepted		TICA
Asteriscus hierochunticus (Michon) Wiklund	Accepted		TICA
Asteriscus imbricatus (Cav.) DC.	Accepted		TICA
Asteriscus intermedius (DC.) Pit. & Proust	Accepted		TICA
Asteriscus schultzii (Bolle) Pit. & Proust	Accepted		TICA
Asteriscus sericeus (L.f.) DC.	Accepted		TICA
Asteriscus smithii (Webb) Walp.	Accepted		TICA
Asteriscus spinosus (L.) Sch.Bip.	Accepted		TICA
Asteriscus vogelii (Webb) Walp.	Accepted		TICA

Statistics

The Plant List includes 38 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Asteriscus. Of these 11 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 38 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Asteriscus. 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 38 species names for the genus Asteriscus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	28.9%
◕	Synonym	26	68.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	2.6%

All names

The status of the 76 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Asteriscus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	15	19.7%
◕	Synonym	60	78.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.3%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 38 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Asteriscus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	11	23	0	0	34	89.5%
	Low confidence	0	3	0	1	4	10.5%

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