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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	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Platanus acerifolia (Aiton) Willd.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Platanus dubia E.H.L.Krause	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Platanus gentryi Nixon & J.M.Poole	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Platanus × hispanica Mill. ex Münchh.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Platanus hispanica Münchh.	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Platanus kerrii Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Platanus mexicana Moric.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23	1
Platanus occidentalis L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23	1
Platanus orientalis L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23	1
Platanus racemosa Nutt.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Platanus rzedowskii Nixon & J.M.Poole	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Platanus wrightii S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 50 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Platanus. Of these 9 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 34 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 50 species names for the genus Platanus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	9	18.0%
◕	Synonym	38	76.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	6.0%

All names

The status of the 84 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Platanus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	10	11.9%
◕	Synonym	69	82.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	5	6.0%

Of the species names,

• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 50 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	9	32	0	0	41	82.0%
	Low confidence	0	6	0	3	9	18.0%

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