Apocynaceae

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

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Genera in Apocynaceae

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A list of all accepted names in Apocynaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Apocynaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 402 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 18,497 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Apocynaceae. Of these 5,031 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,803 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 18,497 species names for the family Apocynaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5,031	27.2%
◕	Synonym	9,172	49.6%
◕	Unplaced	297	1.6%
◕	Unassessed	3,997	21.6%

All names

The status of the 20,300 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Apocynaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5,251	25.9%
◕	Synonym	10,646	52.4%
◕	Unplaced	297	1.5%
◕	Unassessed	4,106	20.2%

Of these names,

163 are recorded as invalid
396 are recorded as illegitimate
12 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 5 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 18,497 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Apocynaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	1,766	4,789	0	0	6,555	35.4%
Medium confidence	2,948	3,466	0	0	6,414	34.7%
Low confidence	317	917	297	3,997	5,528	29.9%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
iPlants	0	2	0	0	0	2	0.0%
Tropicos	1,139	2,334	0	395	0	3,868	20.9%
WCSP	1,772	4,857	124	195	5	6,953	37.6%
WCSP (in review)	2,120	1,979	173	3,407	0	7,679	41.5%