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The genus Panax is in the family Araliaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Panax

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Panax bipinnatifidus Seem.	Accepted		WCSP
Panax ginseng C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP
Panax japonicus (T.Nees) C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP
Panax notoginseng (Burkill) F.H.Chen	Accepted		WCSP
Panax pseudoginseng Wall.	Accepted		WCSP
Panax quinquefolius L.	Accepted		WCSP
Panax stipuleanatus H.T.Tsai & K.M.Feng	Accepted		WCSP
Panax trifolius L.	Accepted		WCSP
Panax vietnamensis Ha & Grushv.	Accepted		WCSP
Panax wangianus S.C.Sun	Accepted		WCSP
Panax zingiberensis C.Y.Wu & Feng	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 221 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Panax. Of these 11 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 39 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Panax. 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 221 species names for the genus Panax recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	5.0%
◕	Synonym	196	88.7%
◕	Unplaced	8	3.6%
◕	Unassessed	6	2.7%

All names

The status of the 260 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Panax recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	14	5.4%
◕	Synonym	232	89.2%
◕	Unplaced	8	3.1%
◕	Unassessed	6	2.3%

Of these names,

• 7 are recorded as invalid
• 9 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 221 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Panax, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	11	177	0	0	188	85.1%
	Medium confidence	0	19	0	0	19	8.6%
	Low confidence	0	0	8	6	14	6.3%

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