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The genus Hydrangea is in the family Hydrangeaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Hydrangea

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Hydrangea anomala D. Don	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea arborescens L.	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea aspera D. Don	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea asterolasia Diels	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea bretschneideri Dippel	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea candida Chun	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea caudatifolia W.T. Wang & M.X. Nie	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea chinensis Maxim.	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea chungii Rehder	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea coacta C.F. Wei	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea coenobialis Chun	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea davidii Franch.	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea gracilis W.T. Wang & M.X. Nie	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea heteromalla D. Don	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea hirta (Thunb.) Siebold	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea hypoglauca Rehder	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea integrifolia Hayata	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea involucrata Siebold	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea jelskii Szyszyl.	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea kwangsiensis Hu	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea kwangtungensis Merr.	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea lingii C. Ho	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea linkweiensis Chun	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea longifolia Hayata	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea macrocarpa Hand.-Mazz.	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea macrophylla (Thunb.) Ser.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hydrangea mangshanensis C.F. Wei	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea mathewsii Briq.	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea nebulicola Nevling & Gómez Pompa	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea paniculata Siebold	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea peruviana Moric. ex Ser.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hydrangea petiolaris Siebold & Zucc.	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea preslii Briq.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hydrangea quercifolia W. Bartram	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea robusta Hook. f. & Thomson	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea sargentiana Rehder	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea serratifolia (Hook. & Arn.) Phil.f.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hydrangea steyermarkii Standl.	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea strigosa Rehder	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea stylosa Hook. f. & Thomson	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea tarapotensis Briq.	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea xanthoneura Diels	Accepted		TRO
Hydrangea zhewanensis P.S. Hsu & X.P. Zhang	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 201 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Hydrangea. Of these 43 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 87 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Hydrangea. 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 201 species names for the genus Hydrangea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	43	21.4%
◕	Synonym	110	54.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	48	23.9%

All names

The status of the 288 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Hydrangea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	49	17.0%
◕	Synonym	187	64.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	52	18.1%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 201 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Hydrangea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	43	110	0	0	153	76.1%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	48	48	23.9%

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