The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Panax

The genus Panax is in the family Araliaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Panax

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Panax bipinnatifidus Seem. Accepted H WCSP
Panax ginseng C.A.Mey. Accepted H WCSP
Panax japonicus (T.Nees) C.A.Mey. Accepted H WCSP
Panax notoginseng (Burkill) F.H.Chen Accepted H WCSP
Panax pseudoginseng Wall. Accepted H WCSP
Panax quinquefolius L. Accepted H WCSP
Panax stipuleanatus H.T.Tsai & K.M.Feng Accepted H WCSP
Panax trifolius L. Accepted H WCSP
Panax vietnamensis Ha & Grushv. Accepted H WCSP
Panax wangianus S.C.Sun Accepted H WCSP
Panax zingiberensis C.Y.Wu & Feng Accepted H WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 221 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Panax. Of these 11 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 39 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Panax. 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 221 species names for the genus Panax recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 11 5.0%
Synonym 196 88.7%
Unplaced 8 3.6%
Unassessed 6 2.7%

All names

The status of the 260 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Panax recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 14 5.4%
Synonym 232 89.2%
Unplaced 8 3.1%
Unassessed 6 2.3%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 221 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Panax, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 11 177 0 0 188 85.1%
Medium confidence 0 19 0 0 19 8.6%
Low confidence 0 0 8 6 14 6.3%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 19 0 3 0 22 10.0%
WCSP 11 177 8 2 0 198 89.6%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.5%