The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Hydrangea

The genus Hydrangea is in the family Hydrangeaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Hydrangea

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Hydrangea anomala D. Don Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea arborescens L. Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea aspera D. Don Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea asterolasia Diels Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea bretschneideri Dippel Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea candida Chun Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea caudatifolia W.T. Wang & M.X. Nie Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea chinensis Maxim. Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea chungii Rehder Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea coacta C.F. Wei Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea coenobialis Chun Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea davidii Franch. Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea gracilis W.T. Wang & M.X. Nie Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea heteromalla D. Don Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea hirta (Thunb.) Siebold Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea hypoglauca Rehder Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea integrifolia Hayata Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea involucrata Siebold Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea jelskii Szyszyl. Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea kwangsiensis Hu Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea kwangtungensis Merr. Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea lingii C. Ho Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea linkweiensis Chun Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea longifolia Hayata Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea macrocarpa Hand.-Mazz. Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea macrophylla (Thunb.) Ser. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Hydrangea mangshanensis C.F. Wei Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea mathewsii Briq. Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea nebulicola Nevling & Gómez Pompa Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea paniculata Siebold Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea peruviana Moric. ex Ser. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Hydrangea petiolaris Siebold & Zucc. Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea preslii Briq. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Hydrangea quercifolia W. Bartram Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea robusta Hook. f. & Thomson Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea sargentiana Rehder Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea serratifolia (Hook. & Arn.) Phil.f. Accepted M WCSP (in review)
Hydrangea steyermarkii Standl. Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea strigosa Rehder Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea stylosa Hook. f. & Thomson Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea tarapotensis Briq. Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea xanthoneura Diels Accepted M TRO
Hydrangea zhewanensis P.S. Hsu & X.P. Zhang Accepted M TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 201 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Hydrangea. Of these 43 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 87 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Hydrangea. 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 201 species names for the genus Hydrangea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 43 21.4%
Synonym 110 54.7%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 48 23.9%

All names

The status of the 288 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Hydrangea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 49 17.0%
Synonym 187 64.9%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 52 18.1%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 201 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Hydrangea, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 43 110 0 0 153 76.1%
Low confidence 0 0 0 48 48 23.9%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 39 104 0 4 0 147 73.1%
WCSP (in review) 4 6 0 44 0 54 26.9%