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The genus Cornus is in the family Cornaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cornus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cornus × acadiensis Fernald	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus alba L.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus alternifolia L.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus amomum Mill.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus × arnoldiana Rehder	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus asperifolia Michx.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus austrosinensis W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus bretschneideri L.Henry	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus canadensis L.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus capitata Wall.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus chinensis Wangerin	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus controversa Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus darvasica (Pojark.) Pilip.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus disciflora Moc. & Sessé ex DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus drummondii C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus excelsa Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus eydeana Q.Y.Xiang & Y.M.Shui	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus florida L.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus foemina Mill.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus × friedlanderi W.H.Wagner	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus glabrata Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus hemsleyi C.K.Schneid. & Wangerin	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus hongkongensis Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus iberica Woronow	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus koehneana Wangerin	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus kousa F.Buerger ex Hance	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus macrophylla Wall.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus mas L.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus meyeri (Pojark.) Pilip.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus multinervosa (Pojark.) Q.Y.Xiang	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus nuttallii Audubon ex Torr. & A.Gray	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus oblonga Wall.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus officinalis Siebold & Zucc.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus oligophlebia Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus papillosa W.P.Fang & W.K.Hu	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus parviflora S.S.Chien	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus peruviana J.F.Macbr.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus quinquinervis Franch.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus racemosa Lam.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus rugosa Lam.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus sanguinea L.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus schindleri Wangerin	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus sericea L.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus sessilis Torr.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus × slavinii Rehder	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus suecica L.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus ulotricha C.K.Schneid. & Wangerin	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus × unalaschkensis Ledeb.	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus volkensii Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus walteri Wangerin	Accepted		WCSP
Cornus wilsoniana Wangerin	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 207 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cornus. Of these 51 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 186 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cornus. 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 207 species names for the genus Cornus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	51	24.6%
◕	Synonym	136	65.7%
◕	Unplaced	10	4.8%
◕	Unassessed	10	4.8%

All names

The status of the 393 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cornus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	77	19.6%
◕	Synonym	296	75.3%
◕	Unplaced	10	2.5%
◕	Unassessed	10	2.5%

Of these names,

• 4 are recorded as invalid
• 13 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 207 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cornus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	50	119	0	0	169	81.6%
	Medium confidence	0	6	0	0	6	2.9%
	Low confidence	1	11	10	10	32	15.5%

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