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The genus Cannabis is in the family Cannabaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cannabis

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cannabis sativa L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 13 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cannabis. Of these 1 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 19 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cannabis. 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 13 species names for the genus Cannabis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1	7.7%
◕	Synonym	12	92.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 32 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cannabis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1	3.1%
◕	Synonym	31	96.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

The confidence with which the status of the 13 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cannabis, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	1	12	0	0	13	100%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

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