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This is a list of genera in the plant family Apocynaceae. As currently circumscribed, the family contains over 5000 species in more than 350 genera. In the most recently published comprehensive taxonomy, which is followed here, 366 genera are distributed in five subfamilies, 25 tribes and 49 subtribes, the first time in over a decade that subtribes are recognized. This classification, although its authors do not acknowledge it, is not strictly phylogenetic, as two of its largest subfamilies (Rauvolfioideae and Apocynoideae) are paraphyletic stem groups. It is in fact impossible to divide the family into strictly monophyletic groups above tribal level.

Genera
Unless otherwise stated, distribution and species number data are derived from the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (except for Asclepiadoideae), and type species information is taken from Index Nominum Genericorum. Numerous typographic errors in dates and page numbers by Endress & al. have been corrected. When describing distributions, archipelagos and islands (e.g. the Caribbean, the Comoros, the Mascarenes, Madagascar) are excluded from Africa and Tropical America unless otherwise specified.