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The genus Hedychium is in the family Zingiberaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Hedychium

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Hedychium aureum C.B.Clarke & H.Mann ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium biflorum Sirirugsa & K.Larsen	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium bijiangense T.L.Wu & S.J.Chen	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium bipartitum G.Z.Li	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium boloveniorum K.Larsen	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium bordelonianum W.J.Kress & K.J.Williams	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium borneense R.M.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium bousigonianum Pierre ex Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium brevicaule D.Fang	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium calcaratum A.S.Rao & D.M.Verma	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium coccineum Buch.-Ham. ex Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium collinum Ridl.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium convexum S.Q.Tong	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium coronarium J.König	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium cylindricum Ridl.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium dekianum A.S.Rao & D.M.Verma	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium densiflorum Wall.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium efilamentosum Hand.-Mazz.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium elatum R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium ellipticum Buch.-Ham. ex Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium elwesii Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium erythrostemon K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium flavescens Carey ex Roscoe	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium flavum Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium forrestii Diels	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium gardnerianum Sheppard ex Ker Gawl.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium glabrum S.Q.Tong	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium glaucum Roscoe	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium gomezianum Wall.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium gracile Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium gracillimum A.S.Rao & D.M.Verma	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium gratum Wall. ex Voigt	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium greenii W.W.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium griersonianum R.M.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium griffithianum Wall.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium hasseltii Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium hirsutissimum Holttum	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium hookeri C.B.Clarke ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium horsfieldii R.Br. ex Wall.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium intermedium Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium khaomaenense Picheans. & Mokkamul	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium kwangsiense T.L.Wu & S.J.Chen	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium larsenii M.Dan & C.Sathish Kumar	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium lineare R.M.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium longicornutum Griff. ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium longipedunculatum Sastry & D.M.Verma	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium luteum Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium macrorrhizum Ridl.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium malayanum Ridl. ex Burkill & Holttum	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium marginatum C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium menglianense Y.Y.Qian	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium muluense R.M.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium neocarneum T.L.Wu, K.Larsen & Turland	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium nutantiflorum H.Dong & G.J.Xu	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium paludosum M.R.Hend.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium parvibracteatum T.L.Wu & S.J.Chen	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium pauciflorum S.Q.Tong	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium peregrinum N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium philippinense K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium poilanei K.Larsen	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium puerense Y.Y.Qian	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium pynursulaeanum S.K.Jain & S.C.Srivast.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium qingchengense Z.Y.Zhu	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium radiatum A.S.Rao & Hajra	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium raoi G.D.Pal & G.S.Giri	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium robustum A.S.Rao & Hajra	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium roxburghii Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium rubrum A.S.Rao & D.M.Verma	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium samuiense Sirirugsa & K.Larsen	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium satyanarayanum S.C.Srivast.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium simaoense Y.Y.Qian	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium sirirugsae M.Dan & C.Sathish Kumar	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium speciosum Wall.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium spicatum Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium stenopetalum Lodd.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium tenellum (K.Schum.) R.M.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium tengchongense Y.B.Luo	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium thaianum Mokkamul & Picheans.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium thyrsiforme Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium tienlinense D.Fang	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium tomentosum Sirirugsa & K.Larsen	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium venustum Wight	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium villosum Wall.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium wardii C.E.C.Fisch.	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium ximengense Y.Y.Qian	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium yungjiangense S.Q.Tong	Accepted		WCSP
Hedychium yunnanense Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 140 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Hedychium. Of these 87 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 25 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Hedychium. 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 140 species names for the genus Hedychium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	87	62.1%
◕	Synonym	46	32.9%
◕	Unplaced	4	2.9%
◕	Unassessed	3	2.1%

All names

The status of the 165 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Hedychium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	90	54.5%
◕	Synonym	68	41.2%
◕	Unplaced	4	2.4%
◕	Unassessed	3	1.8%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 6 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 140 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Hedychium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	87	44	0	0	131	93.6%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	2	4	3	9	6.4%

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