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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Sassafras

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees	Accepted		TRO
Sassafras mauritiana Bojer	Accepted		TRO
Sassafras randaiense (Hayata) Rehder	Accepted		TRO
Sassafras thunbergii Siebold	Accepted		TRO
Sassafras tzumu (Hemsl.) Hemsl.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 17 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Sassafras. Of these 5 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 4 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Sassafras. 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 17 species names for the genus Sassafras recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5	29.4%
◕	Synonym	4	23.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	8	47.1%

All names

The status of the 21 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Sassafras recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5	23.8%
◕	Synonym	7	33.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	9	42.9%

The confidence with which the status of the 17 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Sassafras, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	5	4	0	0	9	52.9%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	8	8	47.1%

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