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The genus Caralluma is in the family Apocynaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Caralluma

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Caralluma adenensis (Deflers) A.Berger	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma adscendens (Roxb.) R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma arabica N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma arachnoidea (Bally) M.G.Gilbert	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma aucheriana (Decne.) N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma australis Nel	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma awdeliana (Deflers) A.Berger	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma baradii Lavranos	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma bhupinderana Sarkaria	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma burchardii N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma caudata N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma chlorantha Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma cicatricosa (Deflers) N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma congestiflora Bally	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma crenulata Wall.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma dalzielii N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma darfurensis Plowes	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma dentata (Forssk.) Blatt.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma dicapuae (Chiov.) Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma diffusa (Wight) N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma dolichocarpa Schwartz	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma edithae N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma edulis (Edgew.) Benth. ex Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma edwardsiae (M.Gilbert) M.G.Gilbert	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma europaea (Guss.) N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma flava N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma flavovirens L.E.Newton	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma foetida E.A.Bruce	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma furta Bally	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma geniculata (Gravely & Mayur.) Meve & Liede	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma gossweileri S.Moore	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma gracilipes K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma hahnii Nel	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma hexagona Lavranos	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma indica (Wight & Arn.) N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma intermedia (N.E.Br.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma joannis Maire	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma kalaharica Nel	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma lamellosa M.G.Gilbert & Thulin	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma lateritia N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma lavranii Rauh & Wertel	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma longiflora M.G.Gilbert	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma mireillae Lavranos	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma mogadoxensis Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma moniliformis Bally	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma montana R.A.Dyer & E.A.Bruce	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma mouretii A.Chev.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma munbyana (Decne.) N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma nilagiriana Kumari & Subba Rao	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma pauciflora (Wight) N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma peckii Bally	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma penicillata (Deflers) N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma peschii Nel	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma petraea Lavranos	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma pillansii N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma plicatiloba Lavranos	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma priogonium K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma procumbens Gravely & Mayur.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma quadrangula (Forssk.) N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma retrospiciens (Ehrenb.) N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma sarkariae Lavranos & R.M.I.Frandsen	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma sinaica (Decne.) A.Berger	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma socotrana (Balf.f.) N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma solenophora Lavranos	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma somalica N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma speciosa (N.E.Br.) N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma staintonii H.Hara	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma stalagmifera C.E.C.Fisch.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma subulata (Forssk.) Decne.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma sudanica Bruyns	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma truncatocoronata (Sedgw.) Gravely & Mayur.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma tuberculata N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma turneri E.A.Bruce	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma umbellata Haw.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma vaduliae Lavranos	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma vansonii Bremek. & Oberm.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Caralluma winkleriana (Dinter) E. Phillips	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 223 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Caralluma. Of these 77 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 72 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Caralluma. 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 223 species names for the genus Caralluma recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	77	34.5%
◕	Synonym	75	33.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	71	31.8%

All names

The status of the 295 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Caralluma recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	84	28.5%
◕	Synonym	131	44.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	80	27.1%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 223 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Caralluma, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	68	58	0	0	126	56.5%
	Low confidence	9	17	0	71	97	43.5%

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