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The genus Azalea is in the family Ericaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Azalea

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Azalea alabamensis (Rehder) Ashe	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 255 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Azalea. Of these 1 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 28 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Azalea. 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 255 species names for the genus Azalea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1	0.4%
◕	Synonym	60	23.5%
◕	Unplaced	14	5.5%
◕	Unassessed	180	70.6%

All names

The status of the 283 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Azalea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1	0.4%
◕	Synonym	66	23.3%
◕	Unplaced	14	4.9%
◕	Unassessed	202	71.4%

Of these names,

• 6 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 255 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Azalea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	1	2	0	0	3	1.2%
	Low confidence	0	58	14	180	252	98.8%

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