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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cycas

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cycas aculeata K.D.Hill & H.T.Nguyen	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas aenigma K.D.Hill & A.Lindstr.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas angulata R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas annaikalensis Rita Singh & P.Radha	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas apoa K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas armstrongii Miq.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas balansae Warb.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas beddomei Dyer	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas bifida (Dyer) K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas bougainvilleana K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas brachycantha K.D.Hill, H.T.Nguyen & P.K.Lôc	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas cairnsiana F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas calcicola Maconochie	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas campestris K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas candida K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas chamaoensis K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas changjiangensis N.Liu	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas chevalieri Leandri	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas circinalis L.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas clivicola K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas collina K.D.Hill, H.T.Nguyen & P.K.Lôc	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas condaoensis K.D.Hill & S.L.Yang	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas crassipes Hung T.Chang, Y.C.Zhong & Z.F.Lu	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas cupida P.I.Forst.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas debaoensis Y.C.Zhong & C.J.Chen	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas diannanensis Z.T.Guan & G.D.Tao	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas dolichophylla K.D.Hill, H.T.Nguyen & P.K.Lôc	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas edentata de Laub.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas elephantipes A.Lindstr. & K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas elongata (Leandri) D.Y.Wang	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas falcata K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas ferruginea F.N.Wei	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas fugax K.D.Hill, H.T.Nguyen & P.K.Lôc	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas furfuracea W.Fitzg.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas glauca Miq.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas hoabinhensis P.K.Lôc & H.T.Nguyen	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas hongheensis S.Y.Yang & S.L.Yang	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas indica A.Lindstr. & K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas inermis Lour.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas javana (Miq.) de Laub.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas lacrimans A.Lindstr. & K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas lanepoolei C.A.Gardner	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas lindstromii S.L.Yang, K.D.Hill & Hiep	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas lingshuigensis G.A.Fu	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas × longipetiolula D.Y.Wang	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas maconochiei Chirgwin & K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas macrocarpa Griff.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas media R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas micholitzii Dyer	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas montana A.Lindstr. & K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas × multifrondis D.Y.Wang	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas multipinnata C.J.Chen & S.Y.Yang	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas nathorstii J.Schust.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas nitida K.D.Hill & A.Lindstr.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas nongnoochiae K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas normanbyana F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas pachypoda K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas papuana F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas pectinata Buch.-Ham.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas petrae A.Lindstr. & K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas pranburiensis S.L.Yang & al.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas pruinosa Maconochie	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas revoluta Thunb.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas riuminiana Porte ex Regel	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas rumphii Miq.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas saxatilis K.D.Hill & A.Lindstr.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas schumanniana Lauterb.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas scratchleyana F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas seemannii A.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas segmentifida D.Y.Wang & C.Y.Deng	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas sexseminifera F.N.Wei	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas shanyaensis G.A.Fu	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas shanyagensis G.A. Fu	Accepted		TRO
Cycas siamensis Miq.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas silvestris K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas simplicipinna (Smitinand) K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas sphaerica Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas sundaica Miq. ex A.Lindstr. & K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas swamyi Rita Singh & P.Radha	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas szechuanensis C.Y.Cheng, W.C.Cheng & L.K.Fu	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas taitungensis C.F.Shen & al.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas taiwaniana Carruth.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas tanqingii D.Y.Wang	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas tansachana K.D.Hill & S.L.Yang	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas thouarsii R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas tropophylla K.D.Hill & P.K.Lôc	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas vespertilio A.Lindstr. & K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas wadei Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas zambalensis Madulid & Agoo	Accepted		WCSP
Cycas zeylanica (J.Schust.) A.Lindstr. & K.D.Hill	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 161 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cycas. Of these 90 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 54 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cycas. 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 161 species names for the genus Cycas recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	90	55.9%
◕	Synonym	62	38.5%
◕	Unplaced	5	3.1%
◕	Unassessed	4	2.5%

All names

The status of the 215 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cycas recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	90	41.9%
◕	Synonym	115	53.5%
◕	Unplaced	5	2.3%
◕	Unassessed	5	2.3%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 161 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cycas, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	87	55	0	0	142	88.2%
	Medium confidence	1	1	0	0	2	1.2%
	Low confidence	2	6	5	4	17	10.6%

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