Cornus japonica DC. Dataset GBIF Backbone Taxonomy Rank SPECIES Published in Prodr. 4: 273 (1830) Classification kingdom Plantae phylum Tracheophyta class Magnoliopsida order Cornales family Cornaceae genus Cornus species Cornus kousa Name Homonyms Cornus japonica DC. Cornus japonica (Siebold & Zucc.) Koehne