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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Carthamus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Carthamus arborescens L.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus atractyloides (Pomel) Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus baeticus (Boiss. & Reut.) Nyman	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus balearicus (J.J.Rodr.) Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus boissieri Halácsy	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus caeruleus L.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus calvus (Boiss. & Reut.) Batt.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus carduncellus L.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus carthamoides (Pomel) Batt.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus catrouxii (Emb. ex Maire) Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus cespitosus (Batt.) Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus chouletteanus (Pomel) Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus creticus L.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus curdicus Hanelt	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus dentatus Vahl	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus dianius (Webb) Sch.Bip.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus duvauxii (Batt.) Batt.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus eriocephalus (Boiss.) Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus fruticosus Maire	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus glaucus M.Bieb.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus gypsicola Iljin	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus helenioides Desf.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus hispanicus (Boiss. ex DC.) Sch.Bip.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus ilicifolius (Pomel) Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus lanatus L.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus leucocaulos Sm.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus mareoticus Delile	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus matritensis (Pau) Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus mitissimus L.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus nitidus Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus oxyacanthus M.Bieb.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus pectinatus Desf.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus persicus Desf. ex Willd.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus pinnatus Desf.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus plumosus (Pomel) Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus pomelianus (Batt.) Batt.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus reboudianus (Batt.) Batt.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus rechingeri P.H.Davis	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus rhaponticoides (Pomel) Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus rhiphaeus Font Quer & Pau	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus strictus (Pomel) Batt.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus tamamschjanae Gabrieljan	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus tenuis (Boiss. & Blanche) Bornm.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus tinctorius L.	Accepted		TICA
Carthamus turkestanicus Popov	Accepted		TICA

Statistics

The Plant List includes 127 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Carthamus. Of these 45 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 47 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Carthamus. 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 127 species names for the genus Carthamus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	45	35.4%
◕	Synonym	59	46.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	23	18.1%

All names

The status of the 174 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Carthamus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	55	31.6%
◕	Synonym	95	54.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	24	13.8%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 127 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Carthamus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	43	55	0	0	98	77.2%
	Low confidence	2	4	0	23	29	22.8%

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