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The genus Corylus is in the family Betulaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Corylus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Corylus americana Walter	Accepted		WCSP
Corylus avellana L.	Accepted		WCSP
Corylus chinensis Franch.	Accepted		WCSP
Corylus colchica Albov	Accepted		WCSP
Corylus colurna L.	Accepted		WCSP
Corylus × colurnoides C.K.Schneid.	Accepted		WCSP
Corylus cornuta Marshall	Accepted		WCSP
Corylus fargesii (Franch.) C.K.Schneid.	Accepted		WCSP
Corylus ferox Wall.	Accepted		WCSP
Corylus heterophylla Fisch. ex Trautv.	Accepted		WCSP
Corylus jacquemontii Decne.	Accepted		WCSP
Corylus maxima Mill.	Accepted		WCSP
Corylus potaninii Bobrov	Accepted		WCSP
Corylus sieboldiana Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Corylus wangii Hu	Accepted		WCSP
Corylus wulingensis Q.X.Liu & C.M.Zhang	Accepted		WCSP
Corylus yunnanensis (Franch.) A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 79 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Corylus. Of these 17 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 59 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Corylus. 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 79 species names for the genus Corylus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	17	21.5%
◕	Synonym	58	73.4%
◕	Unplaced	3	3.8%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.3%

All names

The status of the 138 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Corylus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	26	18.8%
◕	Synonym	108	78.3%
◕	Unplaced	3	2.2%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.7%

Of these names,

• 4 are recorded as invalid
• 3 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 79 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Corylus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	17	56	0	0	73	92.4%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	2.5%
	Low confidence	0	0	3	1	4	5.1%

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