The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Fagus

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Fagus

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Fagus chienii W.C.Cheng Accepted H WCSP
Fagus crenata Blume Accepted H WCSP
Fagus engleriana Seemen ex Diels Accepted H WCSP
Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. Accepted H WCSP
Fagus hayatae Palib. ex Hayata Accepted H WCSP
Fagus japonica Maxim. Accepted H WCSP
Fagus longipetiolata Seemen Accepted H WCSP
Fagus lucida Rehder & E.H.Wilson Accepted H WCSP
Fagus orientalis Lipsky Accepted H WCSP
Fagus sylvatica L. Accepted H WCSP
Fagus × taurica Popl. Accepted H WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 75 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Fagus. Of these 11 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 69 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Fagus. 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 75 species names for the genus Fagus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 11 14.7%
Synonym 58 77.3%
Unplaced 2 2.7%
Unassessed 4 5.3%

All names

The status of the 144 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Fagus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 16 11.1%
Synonym 122 84.7%
Unplaced 2 1.4%
Unassessed 4 2.8%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 75 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Fagus, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 11 55 0 0 66 88.0%
Medium confidence 0 3 0 0 3 4.0%
Low confidence 0 0 2 4 6 8.0%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 3 0 2 0 5 6.7%
WCSP 11 55 2 2 0 70 93.3%