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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Echites

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Echites agglutinatus Jacq.	Accepted		WCSP
Echites brevipedunculatus Lippold	Accepted		WCSP
Echites cajalbanicus Lippold	Accepted		WCSP
Echites candelarianus J.F. Morales	Accepted		TRO
Echites darienensis J.F.Morales	Accepted		WCSP
Echites puntarenensis J.F.Morales	Accepted		WCSP
Echites turbinatus Woodson	Accepted		WCSP
Echites tuxtlensis Standl.	Accepted		WCSP
Echites umbellatus Jacq.	Accepted		WCSP
Echites woodsonianus Monach.	Accepted		WCSP
Echites yucatanensis Millsp. ex Standl.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 504 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Echites. Of these 11 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 27 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Echites. 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 504 species names for the genus Echites recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	2.2%
◕	Synonym	423	83.9%
◕	Unplaced	43	8.5%
◕	Unassessed	27	5.4%

All names

The status of the 531 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Echites recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	2.1%
◕	Synonym	450	84.7%
◕	Unplaced	43	8.1%
◕	Unassessed	27	5.1%

Of these names,

• 13 are recorded as invalid
• 59 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 504 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Echites, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	10	400	0	0	410	81.3%
	Medium confidence	1	18	0	0	19	3.8%
	Low confidence	0	5	43	27	75	14.9%

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