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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pachypodium

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Pachypodium ambongense Poiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Pachypodium baronii Costantin & Bois	Accepted		WCSP
Pachypodium bispinosum (L.f.) A.DC.	Accepted		WCSP
Pachypodium brevicaule Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Pachypodium decaryi Poiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Pachypodium densiflorum Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Pachypodium eburneum Lavranos & Rapanarivo	Accepted		WCSP
Pachypodium geayi Costantin & Bois	Accepted		WCSP
Pachypodium horombense Poiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Pachypodium inopinatum Lavranos	Accepted		WCSP
Pachypodium lamerei Drake	Accepted		WCSP
Pachypodium lealii Welw.	Accepted		WCSP
Pachypodium menabeum Leandri	Accepted		WCSP
Pachypodium namaquanum (Wyley ex Harv.) Welw.	Accepted		WCSP
Pachypodium rosulatum Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Pachypodium rutenbergianum Vatke	Accepted		WCSP
Pachypodium saundersii N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Pachypodium sofiense (Poiss.) H.Perrier	Accepted		WCSP
Pachypodium succulentum (L.f.) Sweet	Accepted		WCSP
Pachypodium windsorii Poiss.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 38 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pachypodium. Of these 20 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 24 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pachypodium. 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 38 species names for the genus Pachypodium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	20	52.6%
◕	Synonym	15	39.5%
◕	Unplaced	2	5.3%
◕	Unassessed	1	2.6%

All names

The status of the 62 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pachypodium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	25	40.3%
◕	Synonym	34	54.8%
◕	Unplaced	2	3.2%
◕	Unassessed	1	1.6%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 38 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pachypodium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	20	15	0	0	35	92.1%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	0	2	1	3	7.9%

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