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The genus Canna is in the family Cannaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Canna

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Canna bangii Kraenzl.	Accepted		WCSP
Canna flaccida Salisb.	Accepted		WCSP
Canna × generalis L.H. Bailey & E.Z. Bailey	Accepted		TRO
Canna glauca L.	Accepted		WCSP
Canna indica L.	Accepted		WCSP
Canna iridiflora Ruiz & Pav.	Accepted		WCSP
Canna jaegeriana Urb.	Accepted		WCSP
Canna liliiflora Warsz. ex Planch.	Accepted		WCSP
Canna orchiodes L.H. Bailey	Accepted		TRO
Canna paniculata Ruiz & Pav.	Accepted		WCSP
Canna pedunculata Sims	Accepted		WCSP
Canna tuerckheimii Kraenzl.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 175 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Canna. Of these 12 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 47 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Canna. 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 175 species names for the genus Canna recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	12	6.9%
◕	Synonym	155	88.6%
◕	Unplaced	6	3.4%
◕	Unassessed	2	1.1%

All names

The status of the 222 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Canna recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	12	5.4%
◕	Synonym	202	91.0%
◕	Unplaced	6	2.7%
◕	Unassessed	2	0.9%

Of these names,

• 11 are recorded as invalid
• 17 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 175 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Canna, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	10	139	0	0	149	85.1%
	Medium confidence	2	16	0	0	18	10.3%
	Low confidence	0	0	6	2	8	4.6%

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