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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Orthosia

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Orthosia bonplandiana (Schult.) Liede & Meve	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia calycina (Schltr.) Liede & Meve	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia cassythoides (Suess.) Morillo	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orthosia congesta (Vell.) Decne.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orthosia cynanchoides W.D. Stevens	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia dusenii (Malme) Fontella	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia eichleri E.Fourn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orthosia extra-axillaris W.D. Stevens	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia glaberrima (Woodson) W.D. Stevens	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia guilleminiana (Decne.) Liede & Meve	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia henriqueana (Silveira) Liede & Meve	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia latipes (Decne.) Malme	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia loandensis Fontella & Valente	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orthosia melantha (Decne.) Malme	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orthosia misera (L.O. Williams) W.D. Stevens	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia parviflora (E. Fourn.) Liede & Meve	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia pearcei (Rusby) Liede & Meve	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia pubescens (Greenm.) Liede & Meve	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia ramosa W.D. Stevens	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia rubens (L.O. Williams) W.D. Stevens	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia scoparia (Nutt.) Liede & Meve	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orthosia selloana (E. Fourn.) Liede & Meve	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia smaragdina W.D. Stevens	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia stipitata W.D. Stevens	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia tarmensis Schltr.	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia thymifolia Schltr.	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia urceolata E. Fourn.	Accepted		TRO
Orthosia virgata (Poir.) E. Fourn.	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 54 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Orthosia. Of these 28 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Orthosia. 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 54 species names for the genus Orthosia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	28	51.9%
◕	Synonym	20	37.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	6	11.1%

All names

The status of the 55 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Orthosia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	28	50.9%
◕	Synonym	21	38.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	6	10.9%

The confidence with which the status of the 54 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Orthosia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	21	13	0	0	34	63.0%
	Low confidence	7	7	0	6	20	37.0%

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