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Carduus

The genus Carduus is in the family Compositae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Carduus

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Carduus × abruzzensis Arènes Accepted M TICA
Carduus acanthocephalus C.A.Mey. Accepted M TICA
Carduus acanthoides L. Accepted M TICA
Carduus acicularis Bertol. Accepted M TICA
Carduus adpressus C.A.Mey. Accepted M TICA
Carduus affinis Guss. Accepted M TICA
Carduus afromontanus R.E.Fr. Accepted M TICA
Carduus albescens Rouy Accepted M TICA
Carduus amanus Rech.f. Accepted M TICA
Carduus arabicus Jacq. Accepted M TICA
Carduus × aragonensis Devesa & Talavera Accepted M TICA
Carduus argentatus L. Accepted M TICA
Carduus argyroa Biv. Accepted M TICA
Carduus asturicus Franco Accepted M TICA
Carduus aurosicus Vill. Accepted M TICA
Carduus baeocephalus Webb Accepted L TICA
Carduus bourgaei Kazmi Accepted M TICA
Carduus brunneri Döll Accepted M TICA
Carduus budaianus Jáv. Accepted M TICA
Carduus calabricus Arènes Accepted M TICA
Carduus camplonensis Devesa & Talavera Accepted M TICA
Carduus candicans Waldst. & Kit. Accepted M TICA
Carduus cantabricus Devesa & Talavera Accepted M TICA
Carduus carduelis (L.) Gren. Accepted M TICA
Carduus carlinoides Gouan Accepted L TICA
Carduus carpetanus Boiss. & Reut. Accepted M TICA
Carduus cephalanthus Viv. Accepted M TICA
Carduus chevallieri Barratte ex L.Chevall. Accepted M TICA
Carduus chrysacanthus Ten. Accepted M TICA
Carduus clavulatus Link Accepted M TICA
Carduus collinus Waldst. & Kit. Accepted M TICA
Carduus conjungens R.E.Fr. Accepted M TICA
Carduus conrathii Hayek Accepted M TICA
Carduus corymbosus Ten. Accepted M TICA
Carduus crispus L. Accepted M TICA
Carduus × cyrneus Schlüssel & Jeanm. Accepted M TICA
Carduus dahuricus (Arènes) Kazmi Accepted M TICA
Carduus defloratus L. Accepted M TICA
Carduus dubius Balb. Accepted M TICA
Carduus edelbergii Rech.f. Accepted M TICA
Carduus estivali Arènes Accepted M TICA
Carduus euboicus Franco Accepted M TICA
Carduus fallax Borbás Accepted M TICA
Carduus fasciculiflorus Viv. Accepted M TICA
Carduus getulus Pomel Accepted M TICA
Carduus gibsonii Accepted M TICA
Carduus gilloti Rouy Accepted M TICA
Carduus × gillottii Accepted M TICA
Carduus grassensis Briq. & Cavill. Accepted M TICA
Carduus grenieri Sch.Bip. ex Nyman Accepted M TICA
Carduus × halanensis Degen & Lengyel Accepted M TICA
Carduus hamulosus Ehrh. Accepted L TICA
Carduus × heteromorphus Sennholz Accepted M TICA
Carduus hohenackeri Kazmi Accepted M TICA
Carduus ibicensis (Devesa & Talavera) Rosselló & N.Torres Accepted M TICA
Carduus intercedens Hausskn. Accepted M TICA
Carduus jordanii Arènes Accepted M TICA
Carduus juratzkae Beck Accepted M TICA
Carduus keniensis R.E.Fr. Accepted M TICA
Carduus kerneri Simonk. Accepted M TICA
Carduus kirghisicus Sultanova Accepted M TICA
Carduus kumaunensis (Arènes) Kazmi Accepted M TICA
Carduus lanuginosus Willd. Accepted M TICA
Carduus leptacanthus Fresen. Accepted M TICA
Carduus leptocephalus Peterm. Accepted M TICA
Carduus leptocladus Durieu Accepted M TICA
Carduus leridanus Devesa & Talavera Accepted M TICA
Carduus lesurinus Rouy Accepted M TICA
Carduus litigiosus Nocca & Balb. Accepted M TICA
Carduus × littoralis Borbás Accepted M TICA
Carduus loreti Rouy Accepted M TICA
Carduus lusitanicus Rouy Accepted M TICA
Carduus macracanthus Sch.Bip. ex Kazmi Accepted M TICA
Carduus majellensis "Huter, Porta & Rigo" Accepted M TICA
Carduus malyi Greuter Accepted M TICA
Carduus maritimum Elmer Accepted L TICA
Carduus martinezii Pau Accepted M TICA
Carduus meonanthus Hoffmanns. & Link Accepted M TICA
Carduus meratii Arènes Accepted M TICA
Carduus merxmuelleri Kazmi Accepted M TICA
Carduus millefolius R.E.Fr. Accepted M TICA
Carduus mixtus Accepted M TICA
Carduus modestii Tamamsch. Accepted M TICA
Carduus × moritzii Brügger Accepted M TICA
Carduus myriacanthus Salzm. ex DC. Accepted M TICA
Carduus naegelii Brügger Accepted M TICA
Carduus nawaschinii Bordz. Accepted M TICA
Carduus nervosus K.Koch Accepted M TICA
Carduus nigrescens Vill. Accepted M TICA
Carduus nutans L. Accepted M TICA
Carduus × nyaradyanus Degen ex Nyár. Accepted M TICA
Carduus nyassanus (S.Moore) R.E.Fr. Accepted M TICA
Carduus occidentalis Nutt. Accepted M TICA
Carduus olympicus Boiss. Accepted M TICA
Carduus onopordioides Fisch. ex M.Bieb. Accepted M TICA
Carduus onopyxos Hill Accepted M TICA
Carduus × orthocephalus Wallr. Accepted M TICA
Carduus pancicii Sch.Bip. ex Nyman Accepted M TICA
Carduus peisonis Teyber Accepted M TICA
Carduus personata (L.) Jacq. Accepted M TICA
Carduus poliochrus Trautv. Accepted M TICA
Carduus × pseudohamulosus Beck Accepted M TICA
Carduus puechii Coste Accepted M TICA
Carduus pycnocephalus L. Accepted M TICA
Carduus ramosissimus Pančić Accepted M TICA
Carduus rechingerianus Kazmi Accepted M TICA
Carduus rivasgodayanus Devesa & Talavera Accepted M TICA
Carduus ruwenzoriensis S.Moore Accepted M TICA
Carduus schimperi Sch.Bip. Accepted M TICA
Carduus schulzeanus Ruhmer Accepted M TICA
Carduus seminudus M.Bieb. Accepted M TICA
Carduus × semiperegrinus Aellen Accepted M TICA
Carduus sepincolus Hausskn. Accepted M TICA
Carduus septentrionalis Devesa & Talavera Accepted M TICA
Carduus silvarum R.E.Fr. Accepted M TICA
Carduus solteszii Budai Accepted M TICA
Carduus spachianus Durieu Accepted M TICA
Carduus squarrosus (DC.) DC. ex Lowe Accepted M TICA
Carduus tenuiflorus Curtis Accepted M TICA
Carduus thoermeri Weinm. Accepted M TICA
Carduus tmoleus Boiss. Accepted M TICA
Carduus transcaspicus Gand. Accepted M TICA
Carduus turocensis Margittai Accepted M TICA
Carduus uncinatus M.Bieb. Accepted M TICA
Carduus × vaillantii Arènes Accepted M TICA
Carduus × verlotii Arènes Accepted M TICA
Carduus weizensis Hayek Accepted M TICA

Statistics

The Plant List includes 929 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Carduus. Of these 127 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 236 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Carduus. 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 929 species names for the genus Carduus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 127 13.7%
Synonym 654 70.4%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 148 15.9%

All names

The status of the 1,165 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Carduus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 169 14.5%
Synonym 836 71.8%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 160 13.7%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 929 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Carduus, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 123 564 0 0 687 74.0%
Low confidence 4 90 0 148 242 26.0%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
TICA 127 653 0 148 0 928 99.9%
Tropicos 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1%