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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Scolymus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Scolymus hispanicus L.	Accepted		TICA
Scolymus maculatus L.	Accepted		TICA

Statistics

The Plant List includes 15 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Scolymus. Of these 2 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 3 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Scolymus. 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 15 species names for the genus Scolymus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	13.3%
◕	Synonym	2	13.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	11	73.3%

All names

The status of the 18 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Scolymus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2	11.1%
◕	Synonym	5	27.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	11	61.1%

The confidence with which the status of the 15 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Scolymus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	2	2	0	0	4	26.7%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	11	11	73.3%

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