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The genus Abrus is in the family Leguminosae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Abrus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Abrus aureus R.Vig.	Accepted		ILDIS
Abrus baladensis Thulin	Accepted		ILDIS
Abrus bottae Deflers	Accepted		ILDIS
Abrus canescens Baker	Accepted		ILDIS
Abrus diversifoliatus Breteler	Accepted		ILDIS
Abrus diversifoliolatus Breteler	Accepted		TRO
Abrus fruticulosus Wight & Arn.	Accepted		ILDIS
Abrus gawenensis Thulin	Accepted		ILDIS
Abrus laevigatus E.Mey.	Accepted		ILDIS
Abrus longibracteatus Labat	Accepted		ILDIS
Abrus lusorius Vell.	Accepted		TRO
Abrus madagascariensis R.Vig.	Accepted		ILDIS
Abrus parvifolius (R.Vig.) Verdc.	Accepted		ILDIS
Abrus precatorius L.	Accepted		ILDIS
Abrus pulchellus Thwaites	Accepted		ILDIS
Abrus sambiranensis R.Vig.	Accepted		ILDIS
Abrus schimperi Baker	Accepted		ILDIS
Abrus somalensis Taub.	Accepted		ILDIS
Abrus wittei Baker f.	Accepted		ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 42 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Abrus. Of these 19 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 27 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Abrus. 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 42 species names for the genus Abrus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	19	45.2%
◕	Synonym	23	54.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 69 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Abrus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	28	40.6%
◕	Synonym	41	59.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

A further 7 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 42 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Abrus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	14	18	0	0	32	76.2%
	Medium confidence	2	5	0	0	7	16.7%
	Low confidence	3	0	0	0	3	7.1%

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