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The genus Sambucus is in the family Adoxaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Sambucus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Sambucus adnata Wall. ex DC.	Accepted		TRO
Sambucus australasica (Lindl.) Fritsch	Accepted		TRO
Sambucus australis Cham. & Schltdl.	Accepted		TRO
Sambucus canadensis L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sambucus chinensis Lindl.	Accepted		TRO
Sambucus nigra L.	Accepted		TRO
Sambucus pubens Michx.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sambucus racemosa L.	Accepted		TRO
Sambucus sibirica Nakai	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sambucus sieboldiana (Miq.) Blume ex Graebn.	Accepted		TRO
Sambucus williamsii Hance	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 128 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Sambucus. Of these 11 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 48 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Sambucus. 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 128 species names for the genus Sambucus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	8.6%
◕	Synonym	22	17.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	95	74.2%

All names

The status of the 176 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Sambucus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	26	14.8%
◕	Synonym	51	29.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	99	56.3%

The confidence with which the status of the 128 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Sambucus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	11	22	0	0	33	25.8%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	95	95	74.2%

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