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The genus Castanea is in the family Fagaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Castanea

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Castanea crenata Siebold & Zucc.	Accepted		WCSP
Castanea dentata (Marshall) Borkh.	Accepted		WCSP
Castanea henryi (Skan) Rehder & E.H.Wilson	Accepted		WCSP
Castanea mollissima Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Castanea × neglecta Dode	Accepted		WCSP
Castanea ozarkensis Ashe	Accepted		WCSP
Castanea pumila (L.) Mill.	Accepted		WCSP
Castanea sativa Mill.	Accepted		WCSP
Castanea seguinii Dode	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 94 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Castanea. Of these 9 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 82 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Castanea. 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 94 species names for the genus Castanea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	9	9.6%
◕	Synonym	72	76.6%
◕	Unplaced	12	12.8%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.1%

All names

The status of the 176 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Castanea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	9	5.1%
◕	Synonym	154	87.5%
◕	Unplaced	12	6.8%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.6%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 94 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Castanea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	9	72	0	0	81	86.2%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	0	12	1	13	13.8%

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