Statistics

Species of Oleaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 25 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 2,657 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Oleaceae. Of these 689 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,331 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Oleaceae. 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 2,657 species names for the family Oleaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	689	25.9%
◕	Synonym	1,860	70.0%
◕	Unplaced	71	2.7%
◕	Unassessed	37	1.4%

All names

The status of the 3,988 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Oleaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	821	20.6%
◕	Synonym	3,059	76.7%
◕	Unplaced	71	1.8%
◕	Unassessed	37	0.9%

Of these names,

• 89 are recorded as invalid
• 112 are recorded as illegitimate
• 9 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 2 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 2,657 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Oleaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	684	1,761	0	0	2,445	92.0%
	Medium confidence	4	28	0	0	32	1.2%
	Low confidence	1	71	71	37	180	6.8%

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