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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Catharanthus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Catharanthus coriaceus Markgr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Catharanthus lanceus (Bojer ex A.DC.) Pichon	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Catharanthus longifolius (Pichon) Pichon	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Catharanthus ovalis Markgr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Catharanthus pusillus (Murray) G.Don	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Catharanthus roseus (L.) G.Don	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Catharanthus scitulus (Pichon) Pichon	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Catharanthus trichophyllus (Baker) Pichon	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 27 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Catharanthus. Of these 8 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 13 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Catharanthus. 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 27 species names for the genus Catharanthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	8	29.6%
◕	Synonym	19	70.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 40 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Catharanthus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	9	22.5%
◕	Synonym	31	77.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of the species names,

• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 27 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Catharanthus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	8	15	0	0	23	85.2%
	Medium confidence	0	4	0	0	4	14.8%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

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