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The genus Platanus is in the family Platanaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Platanus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Platanus acerifolia (Aiton) Willd.	Accepted		TRO
Platanus gentryi Nixon & J.M. Poole	Accepted		TRO
Platanus mexicana Moric.	Accepted		TRO
Platanus occidentalis L.	Accepted		TRO
Platanus orientalis L.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Platanus racemosa Nutt.	Accepted		TRO
Platanus rzedowskii Nixon & Poole	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 43 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Platanus. Of these 7 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 12 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Platanus. 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 43 species names for the genus Platanus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	7	16.3%
◕	Synonym	17	39.5%
◕	Unplaced	1	2.3%
◕	Unassessed	18	41.9%

All names

The status of the 55 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Platanus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	9	16.4%
◕	Synonym	27	49.1%
◕	Unplaced	1	1.8%
◕	Unassessed	18	32.7%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 43 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Platanus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	7	14	0	0	21	48.8%
	Low confidence	0	3	1	18	22	51.2%

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