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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Apocynum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Apocynum androsaemifolium L.	Accepted		WCSP
Apocynum cannabinum L.	Accepted		WCSP
Apocynum × floribundum Greene	Accepted		WCSP
Apocynum pictum Schrenk	Accepted		WCSP
Apocynum venetum L.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 185 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Apocynum. Of these 5 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 99 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Apocynum. 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 185 species names for the genus Apocynum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5	2.7%
◕	Synonym	139	75.1%
◕	Unplaced	14	7.6%
◕	Unassessed	27	14.6%

All names

The status of the 284 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Apocynum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	18	6.3%
◕	Synonym	225	79.2%
◕	Unplaced	14	4.9%
◕	Unassessed	27	9.5%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as invalid
• 10 are recorded as illegitimate

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 185 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Apocynum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	5	134	0	0	139	75.1%
	Medium confidence	0	3	0	0	3	1.6%
	Low confidence	0	2	14	27	43	23.2%

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