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The genus Raphia is in the family Arecaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Raphia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Raphia africana Otedoh	Accepted		WCSP
Raphia australis Oberm. & Strey	Accepted		WCSP
Raphia farinifera (Gaertn.) Hyl.	Accepted		WCSP
Raphia gentiliana De Wild.	Accepted		WCSP
Raphia hookeri G.Mann & H.Wendl.	Accepted		WCSP
Raphia laurentii De Wild.	Accepted		WCSP
Raphia longiflora G.Mann & H.Wendl.	Accepted		WCSP
Raphia mambillensis Otedoh	Accepted		WCSP
Raphia mannii Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Raphia matombe De Wild.	Accepted		WCSP
Raphia monbuttorum Drude	Accepted		WCSP
Raphia palma-pinus (Gaertn.) Hutch.	Accepted		WCSP
Raphia regalis Becc.	Accepted		WCSP
Raphia rostrata Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Raphia ruwenzorica Otedoh	Accepted		WCSP
Raphia sese De Wild.	Accepted		WCSP
Raphia sudanica A.Chev.	Accepted		WCSP
Raphia taedigera (Mart.) Mart.	Accepted		WCSP
Raphia textilis Welw.	Accepted		WCSP
Raphia vinifera P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 51 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Raphia. Of these 20 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 12 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Raphia. 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 51 species names for the genus Raphia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	20	39.2%
◕	Synonym	31	60.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 63 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Raphia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	23	36.5%
◕	Synonym	40	63.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

The confidence with which the status of the 51 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Raphia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	20	30	0	0	50	98.0%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	2.0%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%

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