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Liquidambar

The genus Liquidambar is in the family Altingiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Liquidambar

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Liquidambar acalycina H.T. Chang Accepted M TRO
Liquidambar cerasifolia (Wall. & Griff.) Voigt Accepted M TRO
Liquidambar formosana Hance Accepted M TRO
Liquidambar styraciflua L. Accepted M WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 19 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Liquidambar. Of these 4 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Liquidambar. 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 19 species names for the genus Liquidambar recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 4 21.1%
Synonym 8 42.1%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 7 36.8%

All names

The status of the 21 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Liquidambar recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 4 19.0%
Synonym 10 47.6%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 7 33.3%

The confidence with which the status of the 19 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Liquidambar, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 4 8 0 0 12 63.2%
Low confidence 0 0 0 7 7 36.8%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 3 7 0 1 0 11 57.9%
WCSP (in review) 1 1 0 6 0 8 42.1%