The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Hydrangeaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Hydrangeaceae

A list of all accepted names in Hydrangeaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Hydrangeaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 15 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 658 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Hydrangeaceae. Of these 204 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 303 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Hydrangeaceae. 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 658 species names for the family Hydrangeaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 204 31.0%
Synonym 258 39.2%
Unplaced 5 0.8%
Unassessed 191 29.0%

All names

The status of the 961 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Hydrangeaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 254 26.4%
Synonym 493 51.3%
Unplaced 5 0.5%
Unassessed 209 21.7%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 658 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Hydrangeaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 1 0 0 1 0.2%
Medium confidence 202 252 0 0 454 69.0%
Low confidence 2 5 5 191 203 30.9%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 89 155 0 8 0 252 38.3%
WCSP 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.2%
WCSP (in review) 115 102 5 183 0 405 61.6%