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The genus Striga is in the family Orobanchaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Striga

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Striga aequinoctialis A.Chev. ex Hutch. & Dalziel	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Striga angolensis K.I.Mohamed & Musselman	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Striga angustifolia (D. Don) C.J. Saldanha	Accepted		TRO
Striga asiatica (L.) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Striga bilabiata (Thunb.) Kuntze	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Striga densiflora (Benth.) Benth.	Accepted		TRO
Striga elegans Benth.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Striga euphrasioides (Vahl) Benth.	Accepted		TRO
Striga forbesii Benth.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Striga gesnerioides (Willd.) Vatke	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Striga hermonthica (Delile) Benth.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Striga hirsuta Benth.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Striga latericea Vatke	Accepted		TRO
Striga linearifolia (Schumach. & Thonn.) Hepper	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Striga macrantha (Benth.) Benth.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Striga masuria (Buch.-Ham. ex Benth.) Benth.	Accepted		TRO
Striga rowlandii Engl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Striga strigosa R.D.Good	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 79 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Striga. Of these 18 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 3 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Striga. 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 79 species names for the genus Striga recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	18	22.8%
◕	Synonym	8	10.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	53	67.1%

All names

The status of the 82 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Striga recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	18	22.0%
◕	Synonym	11	13.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	53	64.6%

The confidence with which the status of the 79 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Striga, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	14	8	0	0	22	27.8%
	Low confidence	4	0	0	53	57	72.2%

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