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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Nerium

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Nerium oleander L.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 49 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Nerium. Of these 1 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 8 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Nerium. 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 49 species names for the genus Nerium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1	2.0%
◕	Synonym	45	91.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	6.1%

All names

The status of the 57 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Nerium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1	1.8%
◕	Synonym	53	93.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	5.3%

Of these names,

• 3 are recorded as invalid
• 5 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 49 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Nerium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	1	41	0	0	42	85.7%
	Medium confidence	0	3	0	0	3	6.1%
	Low confidence	0	1	0	3	4	8.2%

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