The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Corylus

The genus Corylus is in the family Betulaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Corylus

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Corylus americana Walter Accepted H WCSP
Corylus avellana L. Accepted H WCSP
Corylus chinensis Franch. Accepted H WCSP
Corylus colchica Albov Accepted H WCSP
Corylus colurna L. Accepted H WCSP
Corylus × colurnoides C.K.Schneid. Accepted H WCSP
Corylus cornuta Marshall Accepted H WCSP
Corylus fargesii (Franch.) C.K.Schneid. Accepted H WCSP
Corylus ferox Wall. Accepted H WCSP
Corylus heterophylla Fisch. ex Trautv. Accepted H WCSP
Corylus jacquemontii Decne. Accepted H WCSP
Corylus maxima Mill. Accepted H WCSP
Corylus potaninii Bobrov Accepted H WCSP
Corylus sieboldiana Blume Accepted H WCSP
Corylus wangii Hu Accepted H WCSP
Corylus wulingensis Q.X.Liu & C.M.Zhang Accepted H WCSP
Corylus yunnanensis (Franch.) A.Camus Accepted H WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 79 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Corylus. Of these 17 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 59 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Corylus. 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 Corylus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 17 21.5%
Synonym 58 73.4%
Unplaced 3 3.8%
Unassessed 1 1.3%

All names

The status of the 138 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Corylus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 26 18.8%
Synonym 108 78.3%
Unplaced 3 2.2%
Unassessed 1 0.7%

Of these names,

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

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 17 56 0 0 73 92.4%
Medium confidence 0 2 0 0 2 2.5%
Low confidence 0 0 3 1 4 5.1%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 2 0 1 0 3 3.8%
WCSP 17 56 3 0 0 76 96.2%