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The genus Heracleum is in the family Apiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Heracleum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Heracleum abyssinicum (Boiss.) C. Norman	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum albovii Manden.	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum barmanicum Kurz	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum bivittatum H. Boissieu	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum candicans Wall. ex DC.	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum cyclocarpum C. Koch	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum dissectifolium K.T. Fu	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum dissectum Ledeb.	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum elgonense (H.Wolff) Bullock	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Heracleum fargesii H. Boissieu	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum forrestii H. Wolff	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum franchetii M. Hiroe	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum grande (Dalzell & A. Gibson) Mukhop.	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum hemsleyanum Diels	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum henryi H. Wolff	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum kingdonii H. Wolff	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum lanatum Michx.	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum mantegazzianum Sommier & Levier	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Heracleum millefolium Diels	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum moellendorffii Hance	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Heracleum nepalense D. Don	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum nyalamense Shan & T.S. Wang	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum olgae Regel & Schmalh.	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum oreocharis H. Wolff	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum palmatum Baumg.	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum pastinacifolium C. Koch	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum rapula Franch.	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum scabridum Franch.	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum sibiricum L.	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum souliei H. Boissieu	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum sphondylium L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Heracleum stenopteroides Fedde ex H. Wolff	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum stenopterum Diels	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum subtomentellum C.Y. Wu & M.L. Sheh	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum taylorii C.Norman	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Heracleum tiliifolium H. Wolff	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum vicinum H. Boissieu	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum wenchuanense F.T. Pu & X.J. He	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum wolongense F.T. Pu & X.J. He	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum xiaojinense F.T. Pu & X.J. He	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum yungningense Hand.-Mazz.	Accepted		TRO
Heracleum yunnanense Franch.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 319 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Heracleum. Of these 42 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 29 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Heracleum. 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 319 species names for the genus Heracleum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	42	13.2%
◕	Synonym	22	6.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	255	79.9%

All names

The status of the 348 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Heracleum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	53	15.2%
◕	Synonym	37	10.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	258	74.1%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid

The confidence with which the status of the 319 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Heracleum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	42	21	0	0	63	19.7%
	Low confidence	0	1	0	255	256	80.3%

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