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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Leucaena

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Leucaena collinsii Britton & Rose	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena confertiflora Zarate	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena cuspidata Standl.	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena diversifolia (Schltdl.) Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena esculenta (DC.) Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena greggii S.Watson	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena involucrata Zarate	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena lanceolata S.Watson	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena lempirana C.E.Hughes	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.) de Wit	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena macrophylla Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena magnifica (C.E.Hughes) C.E.Hughes	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena matudae (Zarate) C.E.Hughes	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena mixtec C.E.Hughes & S.A.Harris	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena multicapitula Schery	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena pallida Britton & Rose	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena pueblana Britton & Rose	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena pulverulenta (Schltdl.) Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena retusa Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena salvadorensis Britton & Rose	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena shannonii Donn.Sm.	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena spontanea C.E.Hughes & S.A.Harris	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena trichandra (Zucc.) Urb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Leucaena trichodes (Jacq.) Benth.	Accepted		ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 66 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Leucaena. Of these 24 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 19 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Leucaena. 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 66 species names for the genus Leucaena recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	24	36.4%
◕	Synonym	40	60.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	3.0%

All names

The status of the 85 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Leucaena recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	29	34.1%
◕	Synonym	54	63.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	2.4%

The confidence with which the status of the 66 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Leucaena, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	24	37	0	0	61	92.4%
	Medium confidence	0	3	0	0	3	4.5%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	2	2	3.0%

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