The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Cornus

The genus Cornus is in the family Cornaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cornus

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Cornus × acadiensis Fernald Accepted H WCSP
Cornus alba L. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus alternifolia L.f. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus amomum Mill. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus × arnoldiana Rehder Accepted H WCSP
Cornus asperifolia Michx. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus austrosinensis W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu Accepted H WCSP
Cornus bretschneideri L.Henry Accepted H WCSP
Cornus canadensis L. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus capitata Wall. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus chinensis Wangerin Accepted H WCSP
Cornus controversa Hemsl. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus darvasica (Pojark.) Pilip. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus disciflora Moc. & Sessé ex DC. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus drummondii C.A.Mey. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus excelsa Kunth Accepted H WCSP
Cornus eydeana Q.Y.Xiang & Y.M.Shui Accepted H WCSP
Cornus florida L. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus foemina Mill. Accepted L WCSP
Cornus × friedlanderi W.H.Wagner Accepted H WCSP
Cornus glabrata Benth. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus hemsleyi C.K.Schneid. & Wangerin Accepted H WCSP
Cornus hongkongensis Hemsl. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus iberica Woronow Accepted H WCSP
Cornus koehneana Wangerin Accepted H WCSP
Cornus kousa F.Buerger ex Hance Accepted H WCSP
Cornus macrophylla Wall. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus mas L. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus meyeri (Pojark.) Pilip. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus multinervosa (Pojark.) Q.Y.Xiang Accepted H WCSP
Cornus nuttallii Audubon ex Torr. & A.Gray Accepted H WCSP
Cornus oblonga Wall. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus officinalis Siebold & Zucc. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus oligophlebia Merr. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus papillosa W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu Accepted H WCSP
Cornus parviflora S.S.Chien Accepted H WCSP
Cornus peruviana J.F.Macbr. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus quinquinervis Franch. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus racemosa Lam. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus rugosa Lam. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus sanguinea L. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus schindleri Wangerin Accepted H WCSP
Cornus sericea L. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus sessilis Torr. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus × slavinii Rehder Accepted H WCSP
Cornus suecica L. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus ulotricha C.K.Schneid. & Wangerin Accepted H WCSP
Cornus × unalaschkensis Ledeb. Accepted H WCSP
Cornus volkensii Harms Accepted H WCSP
Cornus walteri Wangerin Accepted H WCSP
Cornus wilsoniana Wangerin Accepted H WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 207 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cornus. Of these 51 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 186 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cornus. 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 207 species names for the genus Cornus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 51 24.6%
Synonym 136 65.7%
Unplaced 10 4.8%
Unassessed 10 4.8%

All names

The status of the 393 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cornus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 77 19.6%
Synonym 296 75.3%
Unplaced 10 2.5%
Unassessed 10 2.5%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 207 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cornus, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 50 119 0 0 169 81.6%
Medium confidence 0 6 0 0 6 2.9%
Low confidence 1 11 10 10 32 15.5%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 6 0 3 0 9 4.3%
WCSP 51 130 10 7 0 198 95.7%