The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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

Dioscoreaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Dioscoreaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Dioscoreaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 6 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 1,423 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Dioscoreaceae. Of these 650 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 363 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Dioscoreaceae. 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 1,423 species names for the family Dioscoreaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 650 45.7%
Synonym 728 51.2%
Unplaced 19 1.3%
Unassessed 26 1.8%

All names

The status of the 1,786 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Dioscoreaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 674 37.7%
Synonym 1,067 59.7%
Unplaced 19 1.1%
Unassessed 26 1.5%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 1,423 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Dioscoreaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 647 686 0 0 1,333 93.7%
Medium confidence 3 39 0 0 42 3.0%
Low confidence 0 3 19 26 48 3.4%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 3 41 0 19 0 63 4.4%
WCSP 647 686 19 5 0 1,357 95.4%
WCSP (in review) 0 1 0 2 0 3 0.2%