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The genus Scolosanthus is in the family Rubiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Scolosanthus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Scolosanthus acanthodes (Spreng.) Urb.	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus acunae Borhidi & O.Muñiz	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus bahamensis Britton	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus crucifer C.Wright	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus densiflorus Urb.	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus ekmanii Borhidi	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus grandifolius Krug & Urb.	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus granulatus Urb.	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus hirsutus Borhidi	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus hispidus Borhidi	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus howardii Borhidi	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus leonardii Alain	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus liogieri Borhidi	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus lucidus Britton	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus maestrensis Alain	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus moanus Borhidi & O.Muñiz	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus multiflorus (Sw.) Krug & Urb.	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus nannophyllus Borhidi	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus portoricensis Borhidi	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus pycnophyllus Borhidi	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus reticulatus Borhidi	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus selleanus Urb. & Ekman	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus strictus Urb.	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus subsessilis Alain	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus triacanthus (Spreng.) DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus versicolor Vahl	Accepted		WCSP
Scolosanthus wrightianus (Griseb.) C.Wright	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 30 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Scolosanthus. Of these 27 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 5 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Scolosanthus. 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 30 species names for the genus Scolosanthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	27	90.0%
◕	Synonym	3	10.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 35 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Scolosanthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	28	80.0%
◕	Synonym	7	20.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 30 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Scolosanthus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	27	3	0	0	30	100%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

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