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The genus Cephalanthus is in the family Rubiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cephalanthus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cephalanthus angustifolius Lour.	Accepted		WCSP
Cephalanthus glabratus (Spreng.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Cephalanthus natalensis Oliv.	Accepted		WCSP
Cephalanthus occidentalis L.	Accepted		WCSP
Cephalanthus salicifolius Humb. & Bonpl.	Accepted		WCSP
Cephalanthus tetrandra (Roxb.) Ridsdale & Bakh.f.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 44 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cephalanthus. Of these 6 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 11 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cephalanthus. 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 44 species names for the genus Cephalanthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	13.6%
◕	Synonym	31	70.5%
◕	Unplaced	3	6.8%
◕	Unassessed	4	9.1%

All names

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

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	10.9%
◕	Synonym	42	76.4%
◕	Unplaced	3	5.5%
◕	Unassessed	4	7.3%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as invalid
• 3 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 44 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cephalanthus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	6	29	0	0	35	79.5%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	2.3%
	Low confidence	0	1	3	4	8	18.2%

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