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The genus Aneilema is in the family Commelinaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Aneilema

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Aneilema acuminatum R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema aequinoctiale (P.Beauv.) Loudon	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema alatum Koord.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema angolense C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema aparine H.Perrier	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema arenicola Faden	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema benadirense Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema beniniense (P.Beauv.) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema biflorum R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema brasiliense C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema brenanianum Faden	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema brunneospermum Faden	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema calceolus Brenan	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema chrysopogon Brenan	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema clarkei Rendle	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema dispermum Brenan	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema dregeanum Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema forsskalii Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema gillettii Brenan	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema grandibracteolatum Faden	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema hirtum A.Rich.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema hockii De Wild.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema homblei De Wild.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema indehiscens Faden	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema johnstonii K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema lamuense Faden	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema lanceolatum Benth.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema leiocaule K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema longicapsa Faden	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema longirrhizum Faden	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema macrorrhizum T.C.E.Fr.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema mortonii Brenan	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema neocaledonicum Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema nicholsonii C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema nyasense C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema obbiadense Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema paludosum A.Chev.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema pedunculosum C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema petersii (Hassk.) C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema plagiocapsa K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema pomeridianum Stanf. & Brenan	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema pusillum Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema recurvatum Faden	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema rendlei C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema richardsiae Brenan	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema schlechteri K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema sclerocarpum F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema sebitense Faden	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema setiferum A.Chev.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema siliculosum R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema silvaticum Brenan	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema somaliense C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema spekei C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema succulentum Faden	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema tanaense Faden	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema taylorii C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema trispermum Faden	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema umbrosum (Vahl) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema usambarense Faden	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema welwitschii C.B.Clarke	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema woodii Faden	Accepted		WCSP
Aneilema zebrinum Chiov. ex Chiarugi	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 262 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Aneilema. Of these 62 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 45 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Aneilema. 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 262 species names for the genus Aneilema recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	62	23.7%
◕	Synonym	191	72.9%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.4%
◕	Unassessed	8	3.1%

All names

The status of the 307 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Aneilema recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	69	22.5%
◕	Synonym	229	74.6%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.3%
◕	Unassessed	8	2.6%

Of these names,

• 11 are recorded as invalid
• 12 are recorded as illegitimate

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 262 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Aneilema, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	62	182	0	0	244	93.1%
	Medium confidence	0	9	0	0	9	3.4%
	Low confidence	0	0	1	8	9	3.4%

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