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The genus Syringa is in the family Oleaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Syringa

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Syringa afghanica C.K.Schneid.	Accepted		WCSP
Syringa debelderorum J.L.Fiala	Accepted		WCSP
Syringa emodi Wall. ex Royle	Accepted		WCSP
Syringa fauriei H.Lév.	Accepted		WCSP
Syringa inodora (L.) Moench	Accepted		TRO
Syringa josikaea J.Jacq. ex Rchb.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Syringa komarowii C.K.Schneid.	Accepted		WCSP
Syringa meyeri C.K.Schneid.	Accepted		WCSP
Syringa oblata Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Syringa pinetorum W.W.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Syringa pinnatifolia Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP
Syringa protolaciniata P.S.Green & M.C.Chang	Accepted		WCSP
Syringa pubescens Turcz.	Accepted		WCSP
Syringa reticulata (Blume) H.Hara	Accepted		WCSP
Syringa tibetica P.Y.Pai	Accepted		WCSP
Syringa tomentella Bureau & Franch.	Accepted		WCSP
Syringa villosa Vahl	Accepted		WCSP
Syringa vulgaris L.	Accepted		WCSP
Syringa wolfii C.K.Schneid.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 108 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Syringa. Of these 19 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 134 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Syringa. 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 108 species names for the genus Syringa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	19	17.6%
◕	Synonym	76	70.4%
◕	Unplaced	12	11.1%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.9%

All names

The status of the 242 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Syringa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	35	14.5%
◕	Synonym	194	80.2%
◕	Unplaced	12	5.0%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.4%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 108 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Syringa, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	18	65	0	0	83	76.9%
	Medium confidence	1	0	0	0	1	0.9%
	Low confidence	0	11	12	1	24	22.2%

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