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The genus Leucaena is in the family Leguminosae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Leucaena

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Leucaena collinsii Britton & Rose	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena colombiana Britton & Rose ex Britton & Killip	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Leucaena confertiflora Zarate	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14	1
Leucaena confertiflora Zárate	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Leucaena congusa Britton & Rose	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Leucaena cuspidata Standl.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena diversifolia (Schltdl.) Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena esculenta (DC.) Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena greggii S.Watson	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena involucrata Zarate	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena involucrata Zárate	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Leucaena lanceolata S.Watson	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14	1
Leucaena lempirana C.E.Hughes	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14	2
Leucaena macrophylla Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena magnifica (C.E.Hughes) C.E.Hughes	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena matudae (Zarate) C.E.Hughes	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena mixtec C.E.Hughes & S.A.Harris	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena × mixtec C.E.Hughes & S.A.Harris	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Leucaena multicapitula Schery	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena pallida Britton & Rose	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena pueblana Britton & Rose	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena pulverulenta (Schltdl.) Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena retusa Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena salvadorensis Britton & Rose	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena shannonii Donn.Sm.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena spontanea C.E.Hughes & S.A.Harris	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena × spontanea C.E.Hughes & S.A.Harris	Unresolved		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Leucaena trichandra (Zucc.) Urb.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14
Leucaena trichodes (Jacq.) Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS	2010-07-14

Statistics

The Plant List includes 78 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Leucaena. Of these 25 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 26 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Leucaena. 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 78 species names for the genus Leucaena recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	25	32.1%
◕	Synonym	48	61.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	5	6.4%

All names

The status of the 104 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Leucaena recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	28	26.9%
◕	Synonym	70	67.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	6	5.8%

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

The confidence with which the status of the 78 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Leucaena, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	24	45	0	0	69	88.5%
	Medium confidence	1	2	0	0	3	3.8%
	Low confidence	0	1	0	5	6	7.7%

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