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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Hoodia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Hoodia alstonii (N.E. Br.) Plowes	Accepted		TRO
Hoodia currorii (Hook.) Decne.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hoodia flava (N.E. Br.) Plowes	Accepted		TRO
Hoodia gordonii (Masson) Sweet ex Decne.	Accepted		TRO
Hoodia grandis (N.E. Br.) Plowes	Accepted		TRO
Hoodia mossamedensis (L.C.Leach) Plowes	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hoodia officinalis (N.E. Br.) Plowes	Accepted		TRO
Hoodia parviflora N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hoodia pedicellata (Schinz) Plowes	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Hoodia pilifera (L. f.) Plowes	Accepted		TRO
Hoodia rustica (N.E. Br.) Plowes	Accepted		TRO
Hoodia triebneri (Nel) Bruyns	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 46 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Hoodia. Of these 12 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 4 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Hoodia. 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 46 species names for the genus Hoodia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	12	26.1%
◕	Synonym	4	8.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	30	65.2%

All names

The status of the 50 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Hoodia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	32.0%
◕	Synonym	4	8.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	30	60.0%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid

The confidence with which the status of the 46 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Hoodia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	12	3	0	0	15	32.6%
	Low confidence	0	1	0	30	31	67.4%

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