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The genus Fagus is in the family Fagaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Fagus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Fagus chienii W.C.Cheng	Accepted		WCSP
Fagus crenata Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Fagus engleriana Seemen ex Diels	Accepted		WCSP
Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.	Accepted		WCSP
Fagus hayatae Palib. ex Hayata	Accepted		WCSP
Fagus japonica Maxim.	Accepted		WCSP
Fagus longipetiolata Seemen	Accepted		WCSP
Fagus lucida Rehder & E.H.Wilson	Accepted		WCSP
Fagus orientalis Lipsky	Accepted		WCSP
Fagus sylvatica L.	Accepted		WCSP
Fagus × taurica Popl.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 75 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Fagus. Of these 11 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 69 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Fagus. 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 75 species names for the genus Fagus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	14.7%
◕	Synonym	58	77.3%
◕	Unplaced	2	2.7%
◕	Unassessed	4	5.3%

All names

The status of the 144 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Fagus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	11.1%
◕	Synonym	122	84.7%
◕	Unplaced	2	1.4%
◕	Unassessed	4	2.8%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 75 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Fagus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	11	55	0	0	66	88.0%
	Medium confidence	0	3	0	0	3	4.0%
	Low confidence	0	0	2	4	6	8.0%

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