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The genus Alkanna is in the family Boraginaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Alkanna

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Alkanna amana Rech.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna angustifolia Sümbül	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna areolata Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna attilae P.H.Davis	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna aucheriana A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna auranitica Mouterde	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna bracteosa Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna caliensis Heldr. ex Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna cappadocica Boiss. & Balansa	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna confusa Sam. ex Rech.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna corcyrensis Hayek	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna cordifolia K.Koch	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna dumanii Sümbül	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna frigida Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna froedinii Rech.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna galilaea Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna graeca Boiss. & Spruner	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna haussknechtii Bornm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna hirsutissima (Bertol.) A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna hispida Hub.-Mor.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna incana Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna × intercedens Rech.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna jordanovii St.Kozhukharov	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna kotschyana A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna lehmannii (Tineo) A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna leiocarpa Rech.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna leptophylla Rech.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna lutea A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna macrophylla Boiss. & Heldr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna macrosiphon Boiss. & Heldr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna maleolens Bornm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna megacarpa A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna methanaea Hausskn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna milliana Sümbül	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna mughlae H.Duman, Güner & Cagban	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna noneiformis Griseb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna oreodoxa Hub.-Mor.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna orientalis (L.) Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna pamphylica Hub.-Mor. & Reese	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna pelia (Halácsy) Rech.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna phrygia Bornm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna pinardi Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna pindicola Hausskn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna prasinophylla Rech.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna primuliflora Griseb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna pseudotinctoria Hub.-Mor.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna pulmonaria Griseb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna punctulata Hub.-Mor.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna sandwithii Rech.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna sartoriana Boiss. & Heldr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna saxicola Hub.-Mor.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna scardica Griseb.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna shattuckia Post	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna sieberi A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna sieheana Rech.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna stojanovii St.Kozhukharov	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna stribrnyi Velen.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna strigosa Boiss. & Hohen.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna syriaca (Boiss. & Hohen.) Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna tinctoria Tausch	Accepted		TRO
Alkanna trichophila Hub.-Mor.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna tubulosa Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna verecunda Hub.-Mor.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Alkanna viscidula Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 89 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Alkanna. Of these 64 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 15 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Alkanna. 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 89 species names for the genus Alkanna recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	64	71.9%
◕	Synonym	14	15.7%
◕	Unplaced	2	2.2%
◕	Unassessed	9	10.1%

All names

The status of the 104 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Alkanna recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	67	64.4%
◕	Synonym	24	23.1%
◕	Unplaced	2	1.9%
◕	Unassessed	11	10.6%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 89 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Alkanna, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	64	13	0	0	77	86.5%
	Low confidence	0	1	2	9	12	13.5%

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