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The genus Areca is in the family Arecaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Areca

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Areca abdulrahmanii J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca ahmadii J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca andersonii J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca arundinacea Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca brachypoda J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca caliso Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca camarinensis Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca catechu L.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca celebica Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Areca chaiana J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca concinna Thwaites	Accepted		WCSP
Areca congesta Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca costulata Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca dayung J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca furcata Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca guppyana Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca hutchinsoniana Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca insignis (Becc.) J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca ipot Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca jobiensis Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca jugahpunya J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca kinabaluensis Furtado	Accepted		WCSP
Areca klingkangensis J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca laosensis Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca ledermanniana Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca macrocalyx Zipp. ex Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Areca macrocarpa Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca mandacanii Heatubun	Accepted		WCSP
Areca minuta Scheff.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca montana Ridl.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca multifida Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Areca nannospadix Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Areca nigasolu Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca novohibernica (Lauterb.) Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca oxycarpa Miq.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca parens Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca rechingeriana Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca rheophytica J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca ridleyana Becc. ex Furtado	Accepted		WCSP
Areca rostrata Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Areca salomonensis Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Areca subacaulis (Becc.) J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca torulo Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca triandra Roxb. ex Buch.-Ham.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca tunku J.Dransf. & C.K.Lim	Accepted		WCSP
Areca vestiaria Giseke	Accepted		WCSP
Areca vidaliana Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca warburgiana Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Areca whitfordii Becc.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 155 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Areca. Of these 49 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 9 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Areca. 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 155 species names for the genus Areca recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	49	31.6%
◕	Synonym	96	61.9%
◕	Unplaced	10	6.5%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 164 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Areca recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	50	30.5%
◕	Synonym	103	62.8%
◕	Unplaced	11	6.7%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 5 are recorded as invalid
• 3 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 155 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Areca, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	49	94	0	0	143	92.3%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	0.6%
	Low confidence	0	1	10	0	11	7.1%

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