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The genus Carissa is in the family Apocynaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Carissa

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Carissa bispinosa (L.) Desf. ex Brenan	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Carissa boiviniana (Baill.) Leeuwenb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Carissa carandas L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Carissa haematocarpa (Eckl.) A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Carissa macrocarpa (Eckl.) A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Carissa pichoniana Leeuwenb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Carissa spinarum L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Carissa tetramera (Sacleux) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 122 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Carissa. Of these 8 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 31 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Carissa. 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 122 species names for the genus Carissa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	8	6.6%
◕	Synonym	113	92.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.8%

All names

The status of the 153 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Carissa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	8	5.2%
◕	Synonym	144	94.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.7%

Of the species names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 16 are recorded as illegitimate

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

The confidence with which the status of the 122 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Carissa, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	7	90	0	0	97	79.5%
	Medium confidence	0	6	0	0	6	4.9%
	Low confidence	1	17	0	1	19	15.6%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Carissa is as follows: