The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Platanus

The genus Platanus is in the family Platanaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Platanus

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Platanus acerifolia (Aiton) Willd. Accepted M TRO
Platanus gentryi Nixon & J.M. Poole Accepted M TRO
Platanus mexicana Moric. Accepted M TRO
Platanus occidentalis L. Accepted M TRO
Platanus orientalis L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Platanus racemosa Nutt. Accepted M TRO
Platanus rzedowskii Nixon & Poole Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 43 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Platanus. Of these 7 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 12 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Platanus. 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 43 species names for the genus Platanus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 7 16.3%
Synonym 17 39.5%
Unplaced 1 2.3%
Unassessed 18 41.9%

All names

The status of the 55 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Platanus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 9 16.4%
Synonym 27 49.1%
Unplaced 1 1.8%
Unassessed 18 32.7%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 43 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Platanus, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 7 14 0 0 21 48.8%
Low confidence 0 3 1 18 22 51.2%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 6 14 0 0 0 20 46.5%
WCSP (in review) 1 3 1 18 0 23 53.5%