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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Sphinctanthus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Sphinctanthus acutilobus Huber	Accepted		WCSP
Sphinctanthus aurantiacus (Standl.) Fagerl.	Accepted		WCSP
Sphinctanthus hasslerianus Chodat	Accepted		WCSP
Sphinctanthus insignis Steyerm.	Accepted		WCSP
Sphinctanthus maculatus Spruce ex K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Sphinctanthus microphyllus K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Sphinctanthus polycarpus (H.Karst.) Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Sphinctanthus striiflorus (DC.) Hook.f. ex K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 12 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Sphinctanthus. Of these 8 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Sphinctanthus. 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 12 species names for the genus Sphinctanthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	8	66.7%
◕	Synonym	3	25.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	8.3%

All names

The status of the 13 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Sphinctanthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	8	61.5%
◕	Synonym	4	30.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	7.7%

The confidence with which the status of the 12 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Sphinctanthus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	8	2	0	0	10	83.3%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	8.3%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	1	1	8.3%

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