The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Apocynaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Apocynaceae

A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Apocynaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Apocynaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 410 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 18,268 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Apocynaceae. Of these 5,556 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,996 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Apocynaceae. 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 18,268 species names for the family Apocynaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 5,556 30.4%
Synonym 8,848 48.4%
Unplaced 23 0.1%
Unassessed 3,841 21.0%

All names

The status of the 20,264 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Apocynaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 5,745 28.4%
Synonym 10,568 52.2%
Unplaced 23 0.1%
Unassessed 3,928 19.4%

Of the species names,

A further 6 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 18,268 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Apocynaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 1,778 4,805 0 0 6,583 36.0%
Medium confidence 3,491 3,214 0 0 6,705 36.7%
Low confidence 287 829 23 3,841 4,980 27.3%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Apocynaceae is as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
iPlants 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.0%
IPNI 0 0 0 3 0 3 0.0%
TICA 0 0 0 9 0 9 0.0%
RJP 0 0 0 6 0 6 0.0%
Tropicos 1,460 1,663 0 357 0 3,480 19.0%
WCSP 1,782 4,874 0 331 6 6,987 38.2%
WCSP (in review) 2,314 2,310 23 3,134 0 7,781 42.6%