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The genus Cercis is in the family Leguminosae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cercis

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Cercis canadensis L.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14	4
Cercis chinensis Bunge	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14	1
Cercis chingii Chun	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Cercis chuniana F.P.Metcalf	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Cercis dilatata Greene	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cercis ellipsoidea Greene	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cercis florida Salisb.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cercis funiushanensis S.Y.Wang & T.B.Chao	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cercis georgiana Greene	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cercis glabra Pamp.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Cercis griffithii Boiss.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Cercis hebecarpa (Bornm.) Ponert	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Cercis japonica Siebold ex Planch.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cercis latissima Greene	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cercis nephrophylla Greene	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cercis nitida Greene	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cercis occidentalis A.Gray	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Cercis pumila W. Young	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Cercis racemosa Oliv.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Cercis siliquastrum L.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Cercis siliquosa St.-Lag.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cercis texensis Sarg.	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Cercis × yaltirikii Ponert	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18

Statistics

The Plant List includes 34 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cercis. Of these 10 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 15 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cercis. 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 34 species names for the genus Cercis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	10	29.4%
◕	Synonym	10	29.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	14	41.2%

All names

The status of the 49 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cercis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	13	26.5%
◕	Synonym	20	40.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	16	32.7%

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 34 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cercis, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	9	8	0	0	17	50.0%
	Medium confidence	1	2	0	0	3	8.8%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	14	14	41.2%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Cercis is as follows: