The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Scorpiurus

The genus Scorpiurus is in the family Leguminosae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Scorpiurus

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Scorpiurus minimus Losinsk. Accepted H ILDIS
Scorpiurus muricatus L. Accepted H ILDIS
Scorpiurus vermiculatus L. Accepted H ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 16 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Scorpiurus. Of these 3 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 9 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Scorpiurus. 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 16 species names for the genus Scorpiurus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 3 18.8%
Synonym 9 56.3%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 4 25.0%

All names

The status of the 25 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Scorpiurus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 4 16.0%
Synonym 16 64.0%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 5 20.0%

Of these names,

A further 2 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 16 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Scorpiurus, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 3 7 0 0 10 62.5%
Medium confidence 0 2 0 0 2 12.5%
Low confidence 0 0 0 4 4 25.0%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
ILDIS 3 7 0 0 2 12 75.0%
Tropicos 0 2 0 3 0 5 31.3%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 1 0 1 6.3%