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The genus Hedera is in the family Araliaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Hedera

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Hedera algeriensis Hibberd	Accepted		WCSP
Hedera azorica Carrière	Accepted		WCSP
Hedera canariensis Willd.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedera caucasigena Pojark.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedera colchica (K.Koch) K.Koch	Accepted		WCSP
Hedera cypria McAll.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedera helix L.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedera hibernica (G.Kirchn.) Carrière	Accepted		WCSP
Hedera iberica (McAll.) Ackerf. & J.Wen	Accepted		WCSP
Hedera maderensis K.Koch ex A.Rutherf.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedera maroccana McAll.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedera nepalensis K.Koch	Accepted		WCSP
Hedera pastuchovii Woronow	Accepted		WCSP
Hedera rhombea Siebold & Zucc. ex Bean	Accepted		WCSP
Hedera sinensis (Tobler) Hand.-Mazz.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedera taurica (Hibberd) Carrière	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 182 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Hedera. Of these 16 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 114 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Hedera. 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 182 species names for the genus Hedera recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	8.8%
◕	Synonym	155	85.2%
◕	Unplaced	3	1.6%
◕	Unassessed	8	4.4%

All names

The status of the 296 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Hedera recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	22	7.4%
◕	Synonym	263	88.9%
◕	Unplaced	3	1.0%
◕	Unassessed	8	2.7%

Of these names,

• 11 are recorded as invalid
• 11 are recorded as illegitimate

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

The confidence with which the status of the 182 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Hedera, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	16	151	0	0	167	91.8%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	1.1%
	Low confidence	0	2	3	8	13	7.1%

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