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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Silybum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Silybum eburneum Coss. & Durieu	Accepted		TICA
Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertn.	Accepted		TICA
Silybum morianum Gaertn.	Accepted		TICA

Statistics

The Plant List includes 14 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Silybum. Of these 3 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Silybum. 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 14 species names for the genus Silybum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3	21.4%
◕	Synonym	5	35.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	6	42.9%

All names

The status of the 16 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Silybum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3	18.8%
◕	Synonym	7	43.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	6	37.5%

The confidence with which the status of the 14 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Silybum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	2	5	0	0	7	50.0%
	Low confidence	1	0	0	6	7	50.0%

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