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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Polyscias

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Polyscias acuminata (Wight) Seem.	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias aemiliguineae Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias aequatoguineensis Lejoly & Lisowki	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias albersiana Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias amplifolia (Baker) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias anacardium Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias andraerum Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias ariadnes Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias aubrevillei (Bernardi) Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias australiana (F.Muell.) Philipson	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias baehniana (Bernardi) Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias balansae (Baill.) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias balfouriana (André) L.H.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias baretiana Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias belensis Philipson	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias bellendenkeriensis (F.M.Bailey) Philipson	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias bernieri (Baill. ex Drake) R.Vig.	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias bipinnata (Gibbs) Philipson	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias boivinii (Seem.) Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias borbonica Marais	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias borneensis Philipson	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias botryophora Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias bracteata (R.Vig.) Lowry	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias carolorum Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias chapelieri (Drake) Harms ex R.Vig.	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias cissiflora (Baker) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias cissodendron (C.Moore & F.Muell.) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias compacta Lowry & G. Plunkett	Accepted		TRO
Polyscias confertifolia (Baker) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias coriacea Marais	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias corticata Gibbs	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias crenata (Pancher & Sebert) Frodin	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias culminicola A.C.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias cumingiana (C.Presl) Fern.-Vill.	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias cussonioides (Drake) Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias dichrostachya Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias dioica (Vieill. ex Pancher & Sebert) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias elegans (C.Moore & F.Muell.) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias farinosa (Delile) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias felicis Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias filicifolia (C.Moore ex E.Fourn.) L.H.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias floccosa (Drake) Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias florosa Philipson	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias fraxinifolia (Baker) R.Vig.	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias fruticosa (L.) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias fulva (Hiern) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias gracilis Marais	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias grandifolia Volkens	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias gruschvitzkii Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias guilfoylei (W.Bull) L.H.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias heineana Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias jacobsii Philipson	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias javanica Koord. & Valeton	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias joskei Gibbs	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias kikuyuensis Summerh.	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias kivuensis Bamps	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias lancifolia (Drake) R.Vig.	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias lantzii (Drake) R.Vig.	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias le-testui C.Norman	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias lecardii (R.Vig.) Lowry	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias ledermannii Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias macdowallii (F.Muell.) Domin	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias macgillivrayi (Benth.) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias madagascariensis (Seem.) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias maralia (Schult.) Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias mauritiana Marais	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias mayottensis Lowry, O.Pascal & Labat	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias microbotrys (Baill.) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias mollis (Benth.) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias multibracteata (Baker) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias multijuga (A.Gray) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias muraltana Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias murrayi (F.Muell.) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias myrsine Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias neraudiana (Drake) R.Vig.	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias nodosa (Blume) Seem.	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias nossibiensis (Drake) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias obtusifolia Frodin	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias ornifolia (Baker) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias palmervandenbroekii Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias pancheri (Baill.) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias paniculata (DC.) Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias pentamera (Baker) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias philipsonii Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias pinnata J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias purpurea C.T.White	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias quintasii Exell	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias rainaliorum Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias reineckei Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias repanda (DC.) Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias richardsiae Bamps	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias rivalsii Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias roemeriana Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias royenii Philipson	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias sambucifolia (Sieber ex DC.) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias samoensis (A.Gray) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias schmidii Lowry	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias schultzei Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias scopoliae (Baill.) Lowry	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias scutellaria (Burm.f.) Fosberg	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias sessiliflora Marais	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias sleumeri Philipson	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias sorongensis Gibbs	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias stuhlmannii Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias subcapitata Kaneh.	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias subincisa (R.Vig.) Lowry	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias tafondroensis (Drake) R.Vig.	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias tahitensis (Nadeaud) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias tennantii Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias terminalia Bernardi	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias tripinnata Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias verticillata B.C.Stone	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias vogelkopensis Philipson	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias weinmanniae (Baill.) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias willmottii (F.Muell.) Philipson	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias zanthoxyloides (Baker) Harms	Accepted		WCSP
Polyscias zippeliana (Miq.) Valeton	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 184 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Polyscias. Of these 117 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 6 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Polyscias. 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 184 species names for the genus Polyscias recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	117	63.6%
◕	Synonym	54	29.3%
◕	Unplaced	2	1.1%
◕	Unassessed	11	6.0%

All names

The status of the 190 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Polyscias recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	118	62.1%
◕	Synonym	59	31.1%
◕	Unplaced	2	1.1%
◕	Unassessed	11	5.8%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate
• 2 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 184 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Polyscias, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	116	47	0	0	163	88.6%
	Medium confidence	1	7	0	0	8	4.3%
	Low confidence	0	0	2	11	13	7.1%

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