The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Apocynaceae

The family Apocynaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Apocynaceae

A list of all accepted names in Apocynaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Apocynaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 402 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 18,497 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Apocynaceae. Of these 5,031 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,803 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Apocynaceae. 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 18,497 species names for the family Apocynaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 5,031 27.2%
Synonym 9,172 49.6%
Unplaced 297 1.6%
Unassessed 3,997 21.6%

All names

The status of the 20,300 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Apocynaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 5,251 25.9%
Synonym 10,646 52.4%
Unplaced 297 1.5%
Unassessed 4,106 20.2%

Of these names,

A further 5 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 18,497 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Apocynaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 1,766 4,789 0 0 6,555 35.4%
Medium confidence 2,948 3,466 0 0 6,414 34.7%
Low confidence 317 917 297 3,997 5,528 29.9%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
iPlants 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.0%
Tropicos 1,139 2,334 0 395 0 3,868 20.9%
WCSP 1,772 4,857 124 195 5 6,953 37.6%
WCSP (in review) 2,120 1,979 173 3,407 0 7,679 41.5%