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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Sonchus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Sonchus acaulis Dum.Cours.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus afromontanus R.E.Fr.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus angustissimus Hook.f.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus araraticus Nazarova & Barsegyan	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus arboreus DC.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus arenicola Vorosch.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus arvensis L.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus asper (L.) Hill	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus bipontini Asch.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus bornmuelleri Pit.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus bourgeaui Sch.Bip.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus brachylobus Webb & Berthel.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus brachyotus DC.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus briquetianus Gand.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus bulbosus (L.) N.Kilian & Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus bupleuroides (Font Quer) N.Kilian & Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus camporum (R.E.Fr.) Boulos ex C.Jeffrey	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus canariensis (Sch.Bip.) Boulos	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus capillaris Svent.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus congestus Willd.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus daltonii Webb	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus denticulato-lanceolata Kitam.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus denticulato-platyphylla (Makino) Kitam.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus dregeanus DC.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus esperanzae N.Kilian & Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus fauces-orci Knoche	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus filifolius N.Kilian & Greuter	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus fragilis Ball	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus friesii Boulos	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus fruticosus L.f.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus gandogeri Pit.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus gigas Boulos ex Humbert	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus gomerensis Boulos	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus gummifer Link	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus hierrensis (Pit.) Boulos	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus hydrophilus Boulos	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus integrifolius Harv.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus jacottetianus Thell.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus kirkii Hamlin	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus leptocephalus Cass.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus lidii Boulos	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus lingianus C.Shih	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus luxurians (R.E.Fr.) C.Jeffrey	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus macrocarpus Boulos & C.Jeffrey	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus malaianus Miq.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus maritimus L.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus masguindalii Pau & Font Quer	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus mauritanicus Boiss. & Reut.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus melanolepis Fresen.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus microcarpus (Boulos) U.Reifenb. & A.Reifenb.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus obtusilobus R.E.Fr.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus oleraceus (L.) L.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus palmensis (Sch.Bip.) Boulos	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus palustris L.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus pendulus (Sch.Bip.) Sennikov	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus pinnatifidus Cav.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus pinnatus Aiton	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus pitardii Boulos	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus platylepis Webb & Berthel.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus pustulatus Willk.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus radicatus Aiton	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus regis-jubae Pit.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus schweinfurthii Oliv. & Hiern	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus sosnowskyi Schchian	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus spachii Schweinf.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus spicatus Lam.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus stenophyllus R.E.Fr.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus suberosus Zohary & P.H.Davis	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus tectifolius Svent.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus tenerrimus L.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus transcaspicus Nevski	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus tuberifer Svent.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus uliginosus M.Bieb.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus ustulatus Lowe	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus webbii Sch.Bip.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus wightianus DC.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus wildpretii U.Reifenb. & A.Reifenb.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus wilmsii R.E.Fr.	Accepted		TICA
Sonchus yendoi Kitam.	Accepted		TICA

Statistics

The Plant List includes 452 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Sonchus. Of these 79 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 106 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Sonchus. 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 452 species names for the genus Sonchus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	79	17.5%
◕	Synonym	183	40.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	190	42.0%

All names

The status of the 558 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Sonchus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	92	16.5%
◕	Synonym	275	49.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	191	34.2%

Of these names,

• 12 are recorded as invalid
• 13 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 452 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Sonchus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	77	168	0	0	245	54.2%
	Low confidence	2	15	0	190	207	45.8%

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