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The genus Lychnis is in the family Caryophyllaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Lychnis

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Lychnis ajanensis Regel	Accepted		TRO
Lychnis cognata Maxim.	Accepted		TRO
Lychnis coronata Thunb.	Accepted		TRO
Lychnis crassifolia (T.C.E. Fries) M.Popp	Accepted		TRO
Lychnis fulgens Fisch.	Accepted		TRO
Lychnis ischnopetala (F.N. Williams) Majumdar	Accepted		TRO
Lychnis kigesiensis (R. Good) M.Popp	Accepted		TRO
Lychnis kiwuensis (T. C. E. Fries) M.Popp	Accepted		TRO
Lychnis rotundifolia (Oliv.) M.Popp	Accepted		TRO
Lychnis samojedorum Perf.	Accepted		TRO
Lychnis scottii (Turrill) M.Popp	Accepted		TRO
Lychnis senno Siebold & Zucc.	Accepted		TRO
Lychnis villosula Gorschk.	Accepted		TRO
Lychnis wilfordii (Regel) Maxim.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 215 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Lychnis. Of these 14 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 37 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Lychnis. 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 215 species names for the genus Lychnis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	14	6.5%
◕	Synonym	106	49.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	95	44.2%

All names

The status of the 252 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Lychnis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	6.3%
◕	Synonym	139	55.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	97	38.5%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid

The confidence with which the status of the 215 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Lychnis, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	11	98	0	0	109	50.7%
	Low confidence	3	8	0	95	106	49.3%

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