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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cistanche

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cistanche afghanica Gilli	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche ambigua (Bunge) Beck	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche calotropidis (Edgew.) Wight	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche carnosa Pax	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche christisonioides Beck	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche compacta (Viv.) Beck	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche deserticola Y.C.Ma	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche feddeana K.S.Hao	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche fissa (C.A.Mey.) Beck	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche flava (C.A.Mey.) Korsh.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche × hybrida Beck	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche jodostoma Butkov & Vved.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche lanzhouensis Z.Y.Zhang	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche laxiflora Aitch. & Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche mauritanica (Coss. & Durieu) Beck	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche mongolica Beck	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche ningxiaensis D.Z.Ma & J.A.Duan	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche phelypaea (L.) Cout.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche ridgewayana Aitch. & Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche rosea Baker	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche salsa (C.A.Mey.) Beck	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche sinensis Beck	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche speciosa Butkov	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche stenostachya Butkov	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche trivalvis (Trautv.) Beck	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche tubulosa (Schenk) Wight	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Cistanche violacea (Desf.) Hoffmanns. & Link	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 38 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cistanche. Of these 27 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 7 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cistanche. 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 38 species names for the genus Cistanche recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	27	71.1%
◕	Synonym	10	26.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	2.6%

All names

The status of the 45 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cistanche recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	27	60.0%
◕	Synonym	17	37.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	2.2%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 38 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cistanche, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	21	9	0	0	30	78.9%
	Low confidence	6	1	0	1	8	21.1%

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