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The genus Nigella is in the family Ranunculaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Nigella

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Nigella arvensis L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nigella carpatha Strid	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nigella damascena L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nigella degenii Vierh.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nigella elata Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nigella fumariifola Kotschy	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nigella glandulifera Freyn & Sint.	Accepted		TRO
Nigella hispanica L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nigella latisecta P.H. Davis	Accepted		TRO
Nigella nigellastrum (L.) Willk.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nigella orientalis L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nigella oxypetala Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nigella papillosa G.López	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nigella sativa L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nigella segetalis M.Bieb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nigella stricta Strid	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Nigella unguicularis (Poir) Spenn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 77 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Nigella. Of these 17 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 6 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Nigella. 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 77 species names for the genus Nigella recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	17	22.1%
◕	Synonym	5	6.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	55	71.4%

All names

The status of the 83 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Nigella recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	20	24.1%
◕	Synonym	7	8.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	56	67.5%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid

The confidence with which the status of the 77 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Nigella, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	17	5	0	0	22	28.6%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	55	55	71.4%

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