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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Olea

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Olea ambrensis H.Perrier	Accepted		WCSP
Olea borneensis Boerl.	Accepted		WCSP
Olea brachiata (Lour.) Merr.	Accepted		WCSP
Olea capensis L.	Accepted		WCSP
Olea capitellata Ridl.	Accepted		WCSP
Olea caudatilimba L.C.Chia	Accepted		WCSP
Olea chimanimani Kupicha	Accepted		WCSP
Olea cordatula H.L.Li	Accepted		WCSP
Olea dioica Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Olea europaea L.	Accepted		WCSP
Olea exasperata Jacq.	Accepted		WCSP
Olea gagnepainii Knobl.	Accepted		WCSP
Olea gamblei C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Olea hainanensis H.L.Li	Accepted		WCSP
Olea javanica (Blume) Knobl.	Accepted		WCSP
Olea lancea Lam.	Accepted		WCSP
Olea laxiflora H.L.Li	Accepted		WCSP
Olea moluccensis Kiew	Accepted		WCSP
Olea neriifolia H.L.Li	Accepted		WCSP
Olea palawanensis Kiew	Accepted		WCSP
Olea paniculata R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Olea parvilimba (Merr. & Chun) B.M.Miao	Accepted		WCSP
Olea polygama Wight	Accepted		WCSP
Olea puberula Ridl.	Accepted		WCSP
Olea rosea Craib	Accepted		WCSP
Olea rubrovenia (Elmer) Kiew	Accepted		WCSP
Olea salicifolia Wall. ex G.Don	Accepted		WCSP
Olea schliebenii Knobl.	Accepted		WCSP
Olea tetragonoclada L.C.Chia	Accepted		WCSP
Olea tsoongii (Merr.) P.S.Green	Accepted		WCSP
Olea welwitschii (Knobl.) Gilg & G.Schellenb.	Accepted		WCSP
Olea wightiana Wall. ex G.Don	Accepted		WCSP
Olea woodiana Knobl.	Accepted		WCSP
Olea yuennanensis Hand.-Mazz.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 185 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Olea. Of these 34 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 67 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Olea. 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 Olea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	34	18.4%
◕	Synonym	151	81.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 252 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Olea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	43	17.1%
◕	Synonym	209	82.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 9 are recorded as invalid
• 18 are recorded as illegitimate

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

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	34	146	0	0	180	97.3%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	5	0	0	5	2.7%

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