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The genus Areca is in the family Arecaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Areca

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Areca abdulrahmanii J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca ahmadii J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca andersonii J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca angulosa Giseke	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca arundinacea Becc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca bakeri Heatubun	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca brachypoda J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca caliso Becc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca camarinensis Becc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca catechu L.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca chaiana J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca churchii Heatubun	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca concinna Thwaites	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca congesta Becc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca cornuta Giseke	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca costulata Becc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca cuneifolia Stokes	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca dayung J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca dransfieldii Heatubun	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca furcata Becc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca glandiformis Lam.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca gurita Heatubun	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca hutchinsoniana Becc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca ilsemannii André	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca insignis (Becc.) J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Areca ipot Becc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca jugahpunya J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca kinabaluensis Furtado	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca klingkangensis J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca lansiformis Giseke	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca laosensis Becc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca ledermanniana Becc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca macrocalyx Zipp. ex Blume	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca madagascariensis Mart.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca mandacanii Heatubun	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca micholitzii Sander	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca minuta Scheff.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca mogeana Heatubun	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca montana Ridl.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca novohibernica (Lauterb.) Becc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca oviformis Giseke	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca oxycarpa Miq.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca parens Becc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca purpurea auct.	Unresolved		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca rheophytica J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca ridleyana Becc. ex Furtado	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca riparia Heatubun	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca songthanhensis A.J.Hend., N.K.Ban & B.V.Thanh	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca subacaulis (Becc.) J.Dransf.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca triandra Roxb. ex Buch.-Ham.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca triginticollina Heatubun	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca tunku J.Dransf. & C.K.Lim	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca vestiaria Giseke	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca vidaliana Becc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Areca whitfordii Becc.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 111 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Areca. Of these 45 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 19 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Areca. 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 111 species names for the genus Areca recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	45	40.5%
◕	Synonym	56	50.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	10	9.0%

All names

The status of the 130 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Areca recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	46	35.4%
◕	Synonym	73	56.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	11	8.5%

Of the species names,

• 4 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 111 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Areca, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	45	51	0	0	96	86.5%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	5	0	10	15	13.5%

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