The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Azalea

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 M 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,

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:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 1 2 0 0 0 3 1.2%
WCSP (in review) 0 58 14 180 0 252 98.8%