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The genus Taxus is in the family Taxaceae in the major group Gymnosperms (Conifers, cycads and allies).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Taxus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Taxus baccata L.	Accepted		WCSP
Taxus brevifolia Nutt.	Accepted		WCSP
Taxus canadensis Marshall	Accepted		WCSP
Taxus cuspidata Siebold & Zucc.	Accepted		WCSP
Taxus floridana Nutt. ex Chapm.	Accepted		WCSP
Taxus fuana Nan Li & R.R.Mill	Accepted		WCSP
Taxus globosa Schltdl.	Accepted		WCSP
Taxus sumatrana (Miq.) de Laub.	Accepted		WCSP
Taxus wallichiana Zucc.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 73 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Taxus. Of these 9 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 88 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Taxus. 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 73 species names for the genus Taxus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	9	12.3%
◕	Synonym	61	83.6%
◕	Unplaced	2	2.7%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.4%

All names

The status of the 161 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Taxus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	12	7.5%
◕	Synonym	146	90.7%
◕	Unplaced	2	1.2%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.6%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 73 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Taxus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	9	57	0	0	66	90.4%
	Medium confidence	0	4	0	0	4	5.5%
	Low confidence	0	0	2	1	3	4.1%

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