The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

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

Oleaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Oleaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Oleaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 25 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 2,657 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Oleaceae. Of these 689 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,331 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Oleaceae. 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 2,657 species names for the family Oleaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 689 25.9%
Synonym 1,860 70.0%
Unplaced 71 2.7%
Unassessed 37 1.4%

All names

The status of the 3,988 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Oleaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 821 20.6%
Synonym 3,059 76.7%
Unplaced 71 1.8%
Unassessed 37 0.9%

Of these names,

A further 2 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 2,657 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Oleaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 684 1,761 0 0 2,445 92.0%
Medium confidence 4 28 0 0 32 1.2%
Low confidence 1 71 71 37 180 6.8%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 4 26 0 30 0 60 2.3%
WCSP 685 1,831 71 6 2 2,595 97.7%
WCSP (in review) 0 3 0 1 0 4 0.2%