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The genus Loranthus is in the family Loranthaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Loranthus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Loranthus delavayi Tiegh.	Accepted		TRO
Loranthus europaeus Jacq.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Loranthus guizhouensis H.X. Qiu	Accepted		TRO
Loranthus kaoi (J.M. Chao) H.S. Kiu	Accepted		TRO
Loranthus lambertianus Schult. f.	Accepted		TRO
Loranthus macrantherus (Eichler) Hemsl.	Accepted		TRO
Loranthus pseudo-odoratus Lingelsh.	Accepted		TRO
Loranthus tanakae Franch. & Sav.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 1,270 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Loranthus. Of these 8 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 103 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Loranthus. 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 1,270 species names for the genus Loranthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	8	0.6%
◕	Synonym	700	55.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	562	44.3%

All names

The status of the 1,373 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Loranthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	8	0.6%
◕	Synonym	797	58.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	568	41.4%

Of these names,

• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 1,270 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Loranthus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	8	658	0	0	666	52.4%
	Low confidence	0	42	0	562	604	47.6%

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