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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cnicus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cnicus benedictus L.	Accepted		TICA
Cnicus diacanthus	Accepted		TICA
Cnicus medius Knock.	Accepted		TICA
Cnicus orygalis Willd.	Accepted		TICA
Cnicus pinnatisectus Klatt	Accepted		TICA
Cnicus polyanthemus Bertol.	Accepted		TICA
Cnicus pungens Willd.	Accepted		TICA
Cnicus suffultus Maxim.	Accepted		TICA
Cnicus transilvanicus Schur	Accepted		TICA

Statistics

The Plant List includes 395 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cnicus. Of these 9 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 36 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cnicus. 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 395 species names for the genus Cnicus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	9	2.3%
◕	Synonym	328	83.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	58	14.7%

All names

The status of the 431 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cnicus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	9	2.1%
◕	Synonym	359	83.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	63	14.6%

Of these names,

• 5 are recorded as invalid
• 15 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 395 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cnicus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	7	279	0	0	286	72.4%
	Low confidence	2	49	0	58	109	27.6%

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