The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Echinospermum

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Echinospermum

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Echinospermum calycosum (Rydb.) K. Schum. Accepted M TRO
Echinospermum cenchrusoides (A. Nelson) K. Schum. Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 132 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Echinospermum. Of these 2 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 12 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Echinospermum. 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 132 species names for the genus Echinospermum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 2 1.5%
Synonym 55 41.7%
Unplaced 2 1.5%
Unassessed 73 55.3%

All names

The status of the 144 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Echinospermum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 2 1.4%
Synonym 62 43.1%
Unplaced 2 1.4%
Unassessed 78 54.2%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 132 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Echinospermum, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 2 42 0 0 44 33.3%
Low confidence 0 13 2 73 88 66.7%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 2 7 0 0 0 9 6.8%
WCSP (in review) 0 48 2 73 0 123 93.2%