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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cynara

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cynara algarbiensis Mariz	Accepted		TICA
Cynara auranitica Post	Accepted		TICA
Cynara aurantiaca Post	Accepted		TICA
Cynara baetica (Spreng.) Pau	Accepted		TICA
Cynara cardunculus L.	Accepted		TICA
Cynara cornigera Lindl.	Accepted		TICA
Cynara cyrenaica Maire & Weiller	Accepted		TICA
Cynara gomerensis	Accepted		TICA
Cynara humilis L.	Accepted		TICA
Cynara syriaca Boiss.	Accepted		TICA

Statistics

The Plant List includes 49 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cynara. Of these 10 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 16 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cynara. 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 49 species names for the genus Cynara recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	10	20.4%
◕	Synonym	28	57.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	11	22.4%

All names

The status of the 65 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cynara recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	16.9%
◕	Synonym	43	66.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	11	16.9%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid

The confidence with which the status of the 49 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cynara, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	9	27	0	0	36	73.5%
	Low confidence	1	1	0	11	13	26.5%

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