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The genus Laurus is in the family Lauraceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Laurus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Laurus azorica (Seub.) Franco	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Laurus chinensis Blume	Accepted		TRO
Laurus nobilis L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 331 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Laurus. Of these 3 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Laurus. 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 331 species names for the genus Laurus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3	0.9%
◕	Synonym	128	38.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	200	60.4%

All names

The status of the 333 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Laurus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3	0.9%
◕	Synonym	130	39.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	200	60.1%

Of these names,

• 5 are recorded as invalid
• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 331 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Laurus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	3	121	0	0	124	37.5%
	Low confidence	0	7	0	200	207	62.5%

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