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The genus Chloranthus is in the family Chloranthaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Chloranthus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Chloranthus angustifolius Oliv.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Chloranthus anhuiensis K.F.Wu	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Chloranthus elatior Link	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Chloranthus fortunei (A.Gray) Solms	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Chloranthus henryi Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Chloranthus holostegius (Hand.-Mazz.) C.Pei & San	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Chloranthus japonicus Siebold	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Chloranthus multistachys C.Pei	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Chloranthus nervosus Collett & Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Chloranthus oldhamii Solms	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Chloranthus serratus (Thunb.) Roem. & Schult.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Chloranthus sessilifolius K.F.Wu	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Chloranthus spicatus (Thunb.) Makino	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Chloranthus tianmushanensis K.F.Wu	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 47 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Chloranthus. Of these 14 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 9 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Chloranthus. 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 47 species names for the genus Chloranthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	14	29.8%
◕	Synonym	20	42.6%
◕	Unplaced	4	8.5%
◕	Unassessed	9	19.1%

All names

The status of the 56 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Chloranthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	15	26.8%
◕	Synonym	28	50.0%
◕	Unplaced	4	7.1%
◕	Unassessed	9	16.1%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 47 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Chloranthus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	14	19	0	0	33	70.2%
	Low confidence	0	1	4	9	14	29.8%

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