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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Orbea

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Orbea abayensis (M.G. Gilbert) Bruyns	Accepted		TRO
Orbea ciliata (Thunb.) Leach	Accepted		TRO
Orbea cooperi (N.E. Br.) L.C. Leach	Accepted		TRO
Orbea decaisneana (Lem.) Bruyns	Accepted		TRO
Orbea denboefii (Lavranos) Bruyns	Accepted		TRO
Orbea distincta (E.A. Bruce) Bruyns	Accepted		TRO
Orbea dummeri (N.E. Br.) Bruyns	Accepted		TRO
Orbea huillensis (Hiern) Bruyns	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Orbea irrorata (Masson) L.C. Leach	Accepted		TRO
Orbea lepida (Jacq.) Haw.	Accepted		TRO
Orbea longidens (N.E. Br.) L.C. Leach	Accepted		TRO
Orbea lutea (N.E. Br.) Bruyns	Accepted		TRO
Orbea macloughlinii (Verd.) L.C. Leach	Accepted		TRO
Orbea maculata (N.E. Br.) L.C. Leach	Accepted		TRO
Orbea melanantha (Schltr.) Bruyns	Accepted		TRO
Orbea namaquensis (N.E. Br.) Leach	Accepted		TRO
Orbea paradoxa (Verd.) L.C. Leach	Accepted		TRO
Orbea prognatha (P.R.O. Bally) L.C. Leach	Accepted		TRO
Orbea pulchella (Masson) L.C. Leach	Accepted		TRO
Orbea rangeana (Dinter & A. Berger) L.C. Leach	Accepted		TRO
Orbea schweinfurthii (A. Berger) Bruyns	Accepted		TRO
Orbea semota (N.E. Br.) L.C. Leach	Accepted		TRO
Orbea tapscottii (Verd.) L.C. Leach	Accepted		TRO
Orbea umbracula (M. D. Henderson) L.C. Leach	Accepted		TRO
Orbea variegata (L.) Haw.	Accepted		TRO
Orbea verrucosa (Masson) Leach	Accepted		TRO
Orbea wendlandiana (Schult.) G. Don	Accepted		TRO
Orbea woodii (N.E. Br.) L.C. Leach	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 90 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Orbea. Of these 28 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 5 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Orbea. 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 90 species names for the genus Orbea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	28	31.1%
◕	Synonym	23	25.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	39	43.3%

All names

The status of the 95 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Orbea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	32	33.7%
◕	Synonym	23	24.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	40	42.1%

The confidence with which the status of the 90 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Orbea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	21	23	0	0	44	48.9%
	Low confidence	7	0	0	39	46	51.1%

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