The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Echium

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Echium

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Echium aculeatum Poir. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium albicans Lag. & Rodr. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium amoenum Fisch. & C.A.Mey. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium anchusoides Bacch., Brullo & Selvi Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium angustifolium Mill. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium arenarium Guss. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium asperrimum Lam. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium auberianum Webb & Berthel. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium bethencourtii A.Santos Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium biebersteinii Lacaita Accepted M TRO
Echium boissieri Steud. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium bonnetii Coincy Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium brevirame Sprague & Hutch. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium callithyrsum Webb ex Bolle Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium candicans L.f. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium canum Emb. & Maire Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium creticum L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium decaisnei Webb & Berthel. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium flavum Desf. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium gaditanum Boiss. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium giganteum L.f. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium glomeratum Poir. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium handiense Svent. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium hierrense Webb ex Bolle Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium horridum Batt. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium humile Desf. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium hypertropicum Webb Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium italicum L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium judaeum Lacaita Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium khuzistanicum Mozaff. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium × lemsii G.Kunkel Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium leucophaeum (H.Christ) Webb ex Sprague & Hutch. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium longifolium Delile Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium lusitanicum L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium modestum Ball Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium nervosum Dryand. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium onosmifolium Webb & Berthel. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium orientale L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium pabotii Mouterde Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium parviflorum Moench Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium petiolatum Barratte & Coincy Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium pininana Webb & Berthel. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium pitardii A.Chev. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium plantagineum L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium rauwolfii Delile Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium rosulatum Lange Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium rubrum Forssk. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium sabulicola Pomel Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium salmanticum Lag. Accepted L WCSP (in review)
Echium simplex DC. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium spurium Lojac. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium stenosiphon Webb Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium strictum L.f. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium suffruticosum Barratte Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium sventenii Bramwell Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium × taibiquense P.Wolff & Rosinski Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium tenue Roth Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium thyrsiflorum Masson ex Link Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium triste Svent. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium tuberculatum Hoffmanns. & Link Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium velutinum Coincy Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium virescens DC. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium vulcanorum A.Chev. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium vulgare L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium webbii Coincy Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Echium wildpretii H.Pearson ex Hook.f. Accepted M WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 383 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Echium. Of these 66 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 92 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Echium. 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 383 species names for the genus Echium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 66 17.2%
Synonym 210 54.8%
Unplaced 36 9.4%
Unassessed 71 18.5%

All names

The status of the 475 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Echium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 94 19.8%
Synonym 273 57.5%
Unplaced 36 7.6%
Unassessed 72 15.2%

Of these names,

A further 3 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 383 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Echium, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 65 184 0 0 249 65.0%
Low confidence 1 26 36 71 134 35.0%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 1 4 0 1 0 6 1.6%
WCSP (in review) 65 206 36 70 3 380 99.2%