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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Xanthium

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Xanthium ambrosioides Hook. & Arn.	Accepted		TICA
Xanthium argenteum Widder	Accepted		TICA
Xanthium cavanillesii Schouw	Accepted		TICA
Xanthium cloessplateaum D.Z.Ma	Accepted		TICA
Xanthium echinatum Murray	Accepted		TICA
Xanthium inaequilaterum DC.	Accepted		TICA
Xanthium italicum Moretti	Accepted		TICA
Xanthium mongolicum Kitag.	Accepted		TICA
Xanthium orientale L.	Accepted		TICA
Xanthium sibiricum Patrin ex Widder	Accepted		TICA
Xanthium spinosum L.	Accepted		TICA
Xanthium strumarium	Accepted		TICA

Statistics

The Plant List includes 130 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Xanthium. Of these 12 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 23 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Xanthium. 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 130 species names for the genus Xanthium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	12	9.2%
◕	Synonym	39	30.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	79	60.8%

All names

The status of the 153 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Xanthium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	18	11.8%
◕	Synonym	55	35.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	80	52.3%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 130 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Xanthium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	11	18	0	0	29	22.3%
	Low confidence	1	21	0	79	101	77.7%

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