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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Stapelia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Stapelia acuminata Masson	Accepted		TRO
Stapelia arenosa C.A. Lückh.	Accepted		TRO
Stapelia asterias Masson	Accepted		TRO
Stapelia flavopurpurea Marloth	Accepted		TRO
Stapelia gigantea N.E. Br.	Accepted		TRO
Stapelia glabricaulis N.E. Br.	Accepted		TRO
Stapelia grandiflora Curtis	Accepted		TRO
Stapelia hirsuta L.	Accepted		TRO
Stapelia leendertziae N.E. Br.	Accepted		TRO
Stapelia paniculata Willd.	Accepted		TRO
Stapelia parvula Kers	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Stapelia pulvinata Masson	Accepted		TRO
Stapelia rufa Masson	Accepted		TRO
Stapelia similis N.E. Br.	Accepted		TRO
Stapelia surrecta N.E. Br.	Accepted		TRO
Stapelia vetula Masson	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 372 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Stapelia. Of these 16 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 52 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Stapelia. 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 372 species names for the genus Stapelia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	4.3%
◕	Synonym	213	57.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	143	38.4%

All names

The status of the 424 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Stapelia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	3.8%
◕	Synonym	260	61.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	148	34.9%

The confidence with which the status of the 372 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Stapelia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	16	170	0	0	186	50.0%
	Low confidence	0	43	0	143	186	50.0%

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