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The genus Alchornea is in the family Euphorbiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Alchornea

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Alchornea acutifolia Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea alnifolia (Bojer ex Baill.) Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea anamariae Secco	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea androgyna Croizat	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea annamica Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea aquifolia (Js.Sm.) Domin	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea bogotensis Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea brittonii Secco	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea castaneifolia (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) A.Juss.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea cerifera Croizat	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea chiapasana Miranda	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea coelophylla Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea cordifolia (Schumach. & Thonn.) Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea costaricensis Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea davidii Franch.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea discolor Poepp.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea elliottii S. Watson	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Alchornea floribunda Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea fluviatilis Secco	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea glabra (Merr.) Hurus.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea glandulosa Poepp.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Alchornea grandiflora Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea grandis Benth.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea guatemalensis Lundell	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea hilariana Baill.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea hirtella Benth.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	2
Alchornea humbertii Leandri	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea hunanensis H.S.Kiu	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea integrifolia Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea latifolia Sw.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea laxiflora (Benth.) Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea liukiuensis Hayata	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea lojaensis Secco	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea megalophylla Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea mildbraedii Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea mollis (Benth.) Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea oblonga Müll. Arg.	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Alchornea occidentalis (Müll.Arg.) Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea parviflora (Benth.) Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea pearcei Britton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea perrieri Leandri	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea rhodophylla Pax & K.Hoffm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea rugosa (Lour.) Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea scandens (Lour.) Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea sicca (Blanco) Merr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea sidifolia Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea tachirensis R.de S.Secco	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea tiliifolia (Benth.) Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea trewioides (Benth.) Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea triplinervia (Spreng.) Müll.Arg.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea ulmifolia (Müll.Arg.) Hurus.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea vaniotii H.Lév.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea websteri Secco	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Alchornea yambuyaensis De Wild.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 167 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Alchornea. Of these 52 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 57 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Alchornea. 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 167 species names for the genus Alchornea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	52	31.1%
◕	Synonym	113	67.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	1.2%

All names

The status of the 224 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Alchornea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	55	24.6%
◕	Synonym	167	74.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	0.9%

Of the species names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 167 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Alchornea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	51	105	0	0	156	93.4%
	Medium confidence	1	8	0	0	9	5.4%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	2	2	1.2%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Alchornea is as follows: