The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Araceae

The family Araceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Araceae

A list of all accepted names in Araceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Araceae contained within The Plant List belong to 113 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 7,655 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Araceae. Of these 3,174 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,236 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Araceae. 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 7,655 species names for the family Araceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 3,174 41.5%
◕ Synonym 3,410 44.5%
◕ Unplaced 158 2.1%
◕ Unassessed 913 11.9%

All names

The status of the 8,891 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Araceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 3,324 37.4%
◕ Synonym 4,495 50.6%
◕ Unplaced 158 1.8%
◕ Unassessed 914 10.3%

Of these names,

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 7,655 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Araceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 3,146 3,190 0 0 6,336 82.8%
Medium confidence 25 178 0 0 203 2.7%
Low confidence 3 42 158 913 1,116 14.6%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 25 184 0 872 0 1,081 14.1%
WCSP 3,149 3,226 158 4 1 6,538 85.4%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 37 0 37 0.5%