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The genus Taxus is in the family Taxaceae in the major group Gymnosperms (Conifers, cycads and allies).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Taxus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Taxus baccata L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Taxus brevifolia Nutt.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Taxus canadensis Marshall	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Taxus cuspidata Siebold & Zucc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26	1
Taxus floridana Nutt. ex Chapm.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Taxus fuana Nan Li & R.R.Mill	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Taxus globosa Schltdl.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Taxus × hunnewelliana Rehder	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-26
Taxus × media Rehder	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-26
Taxus sinensis Knight ex Gordon	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Taxus sumatrana (Miq.) de Laub.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26
Taxus wallichiana Zucc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-26	2

Statistics

The Plant List includes 80 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Taxus. Of these 9 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 106 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Taxus. 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 80 species names for the genus Taxus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	9	11.3%
◕	Synonym	68	85.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	3.8%

All names

The status of the 186 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Taxus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	12	6.5%
◕	Synonym	171	91.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	1.6%

Of the species names,

• 22 are recorded as invalid
• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 80 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Taxus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	9	65	0	0	74	92.5%
	Medium confidence	0	3	0	0	3	3.8%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	3	3	3.8%

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