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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Echinops

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Echinops aberdaricus R.E.Fr.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops abstersibilis Iljin	Accepted		TICA
Echinops afghanicus Gilli	Accepted		TICA
Echinops albicaulis Kar. & Kir.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops amoenus Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops amplexicaulis Oliv.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops angustilobus S.Moore	Accepted		TICA
Echinops arachniolepis Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops araneosus Lazkov	Accepted		TICA
Echinops armatus Boiss. & Hausskn.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops atrox Kit Tan	Accepted		TICA
Echinops aucheri Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops babatagensis Czerniak.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops bakhtiaricus Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops bannaticus Rochel ex Schrad.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops brevipenicillatus Czerniak.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops buhaitensis Mesfin	Accepted		TICA
Echinops candelabrum Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops cephalotes DC.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops ceratophorus Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops cervicornis Bornm.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops chantavicus Trautv.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops chardini Boiss. & Buhse	Accepted		TICA
Echinops chloroleucus Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops chlorophyllus Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops chodzha-mumini Rassulova & B.A.Sharipova	Accepted		TICA
Echinops chorassanicus Bunge	Accepted		TICA
Echinops coriophyllus C.Shih	Accepted		TICA
Echinops cornigerus DC.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops cyanocephalus Boiss. & Hausskn.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops cyrenaicus	Accepted		TICA
Echinops dagestanicus Iljin	Accepted		TICA
Echinops dasyanthus Regel & Schmalh.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops descendens Hand.-Mazz.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops dichrous Boiss. & Hausskn.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops dissectus Kitag.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops dubjanskyi Iliin	Accepted		TICA
Echinops ecbatanus Bornm. ex Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops echinatus Roxb.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops elatus Bunge	Accepted		TICA
Echinops elbursensis Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops ellenbeckii O.Hoffm.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops elymaiticus Bornm.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops emiliae P.H.Davis	Accepted		TICA
Echinops endotrichus Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops erinaceus Kit Tan	Accepted		TICA
Echinops erioceras Bornm.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops eryngiifolius O.Hoffm.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops exaltatus Schrad.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops fastigiatus Kamelin & Tscherneva	Accepted		TICA
Echinops faucicola Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops fedtschenkoi Iljin	Accepted		TICA
Echinops foliosus Sommier & Levier	Accepted		TICA
Echinops fraudator C.C.Towns.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops freitagii Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops galalensis Schweinf.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops gedrosiacus Bornm.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops ghoranus Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops giganteus A.Rich.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops glaberrimus DC.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops glanduloso-punctatus Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops gmelinii Turcz.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops gracilis O.Hoffm.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops graecus Mill.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops griffithianus Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops grijsii Hance	Accepted		TICA
Echinops guineensis C.D.Adams	Accepted		TICA
Echinops haussknechtii Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops hebelepis DC.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops hedgei Kit Tan	Accepted		TICA
Echinops heteromorphus Bunge	Accepted		TICA
Echinops heterophyllus P.H.Davis	Accepted		TICA
Echinops himantophyllus Mattf.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops hispidus Fresen.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops hissaricus Rassulova & B.A.Sharipova	Accepted		TICA
Echinops hoehnelii Schweinf.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops hololeucus Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops humilis M.Bieb.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops hussonii Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops hystrichoides Kit Tan	Accepted		TICA
Echinops ilicifolius Bunge	Accepted		TICA
Echinops inermis Boiss. & Hausskn.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops integrifolius Kar. & Kir.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops iranshahrii Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops jesdianus Boiss. & Buhse	Accepted		TICA
Echinops kafirniganus Bobrov	Accepted		TICA
Echinops kandaharensis Rech.f. & Köie	Accepted		TICA
Echinops karatavicus Regel & Schmalh.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops kasakorum Pavlov	Accepted		TICA
Echinops kebericho Mesfin	Accepted		TICA
Echinops keredjensis Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops knorringianus Iljin	Accepted		TICA
Echinops koelzii Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops kotschyi Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops kurdicus Bunge	Accepted		TICA
Echinops lalesarensis Bornm.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops lanatus C.Jeffrey & Mesfin	Accepted		TICA
Echinops lasiolepis Bunge	Accepted		TICA
Echinops latifolius Tausch	Accepted		TICA
Echinops leiopolyceras Bornm.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops leucographus Bunge	Accepted		TICA
Echinops longifolius A.Rich.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops longipenicillatus Mozaff. & Ghahr.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops longisetus A.Rich.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops macrochaetus Fresen.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops macrophyllus Boiss. & Hausskn.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops malacophyllus Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops mandavillei Kit Tan	Accepted		TICA
Echinops maracandicus Bunge	Accepted		TICA
Echinops melitenensis Hedge & Hub.-Mor.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops mersinensis Gemici & Leblebici	Accepted		TICA
Echinops meyer Iljin	Accepted		TRO
Echinops microcephalus Sm.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops mildbraedii Mattf.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops mosulensis Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops multicaulis Nevski	Accepted		TICA
Echinops myrioceras Bornm.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops nanus Bunge	Accepted		TICA
Echinops nitens Bornm.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops niveus Wall. ex Royle	Accepted		TICA
Echinops nizvanus Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops nuratavicus A.D.Li	Accepted		TICA
Echinops obliquilobus Iljin	Accepted		TICA
Echinops onopordum P.H.Davis	Accepted		TICA
Echinops opacifolius Iljin	Accepted		TICA
Echinops orientalis Trautv.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops ossicus K.Koch	Accepted		TICA
Echinops oxyodontus Bornm. & Diels	Accepted		TICA
Echinops pabotii Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops pachyphyllus Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops pannosus Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops pappii Chiov.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops paradoxus Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops parviflorus Boiss. & Buhse	Accepted		TICA
Echinops pathanorum Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops × pellenzianus Hügin & W.Lohmeyer	Accepted		TICA
Echinops persepolitanus Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops phaeocephalus Hand.-Mazz.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops philistaeus Feinbrun & Zohary	Accepted		TICA
Echinops polyacanthus Iljin	Accepted		TICA
Echinops polyceras Boiss.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops polychromus Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops polygamus Bunge	Accepted		TICA
Echinops praetermissus Nevski	Accepted		TICA
Echinops prionolepis Bornm. & Mattf.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops procerus Mozaff.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops przewalskii Iljin	Accepted		TICA
Echinops pseudomaracandicus Rassulova & B.A.Sharipova	Accepted		TICA
Echinops pseudosetifer Kitag.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops pubisquameus Iljin	Accepted		TICA
Echinops pungens Trautv.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops rajasthanensis R.P.Pandey & V.Singh	Accepted		TICA
Echinops rectangularis Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops registanicus Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops reticulatus E.A.Bruce	Accepted		TICA
Echinops rito L.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops ritro L.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops ritrodes Bunge	Accepted		TICA
Echinops robustus Bunge	Accepted		TICA
Echinops rubromontanus Kamelin ex Rassulova & B.A.Sharipova	Accepted		TICA
Echinops saissanicus (B.Keller) Bobrov	Accepted		TICA
Echinops setifer Iljin	Accepted		TICA
Echinops shahrudensis Mozaff. & Ghahr.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops sheilae Kit Tan	Accepted		TICA
Echinops sintenisii Freyn	Accepted		TICA
Echinops sojakii Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops sphaerocephalus L.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops spiniger Iljin ex Bobrov	Accepted		TICA
Echinops spinosissimus Turra	Accepted		TICA
Echinops strigosus L.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops subglaber Schrenk	Accepted		TICA
Echinops sulaimanii Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops sylvicola C.Shih	Accepted		TICA
Echinops taeckholmianus Amin	Accepted		TICA
Echinops taftanicus Mozaff. & Ghahr.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops talassicus Golosk.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops tenuisectus Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops tibeticus Bunge	Accepted		TICA
Echinops tjanschanicus Bobrov	Accepted		TICA
Echinops tournefortii Ledeb.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops transcaspicus Bornm.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops transcaucasicus Iljin	Accepted		TICA
Echinops transiliensis Golosk.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops tricholepis Schrenk	Accepted		TICA
Echinops tschimganicus B.Fedtsch.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops vaginatus Boiss. & Hausskn.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops villosissimus Bunge	Accepted		TICA
Echinops viridifolius Iljin	Accepted		TICA
Echinops wakhanicus Rech.f.	Accepted		TICA
Echinops yemenicus Kit Tan	Accepted		TICA

Statistics

The Plant List includes 400 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Echinops. Of these 190 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 62 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Echinops. 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 400 species names for the genus Echinops recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	190	47.5%
◕	Synonym	125	31.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	85	21.3%

All names

The status of the 462 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Echinops recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	200	43.3%
◕	Synonym	176	38.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	86	18.6%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as invalid
• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 400 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Echinops, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	186	119	0	0	305	76.3%
	Low confidence	4	6	0	85	95	23.8%

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