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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Sarcostemma

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Sarcostemma acidum (Roxb.) Voigt	Accepted		TRO
Sarcostemma andinum (Ball) R.W. Holm	Accepted		TRO
Sarcostemma angustissimum (Andersson) R.W. Holm	Accepted		TRO
Sarcostemma bilobum Hook. & Arn.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sarcostemma clausum (Jacq.) Schult.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sarcostemma crispum Benth.	Accepted		TRO
Sarcostemma cynanchoides Decne.	Accepted		TRO
Sarcostemma elegans Decne.	Accepted		TRO
Sarcostemma glaucum Kunth	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sarcostemma hirtellum (A. Gray) R.W. Holm	Accepted		TRO
Sarcostemma madagascariense Desc.	Accepted		TRO
Sarcostemma refractum (Donn. Sm.) L.O. Williams	Accepted		TRO
Sarcostemma secamone (L.) Bennett	Accepted		TRO
Sarcostemma torreyi (A. Gray) Woodson	Accepted		TRO
Sarcostemma viminale (L.) R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sarcostemma welwitschii Hiern	Accepted		WCSP (in review)

Statistics

The Plant List includes 106 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Sarcostemma. Of these 16 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 10 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Sarcostemma. 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 106 species names for the genus Sarcostemma recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	15.1%
◕	Synonym	68	64.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	22	20.8%

All names

The status of the 116 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Sarcostemma recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	21	18.1%
◕	Synonym	73	62.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	22	19.0%

The confidence with which the status of the 106 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Sarcostemma, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	15	59	0	0	74	69.8%
	Low confidence	1	9	0	22	32	30.2%

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