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The genus Sechium is in the family Cucurbitaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Sechium

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Sechium chinantlense Lira & F. Chiang	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Sechium compositum (Donn. Sm.) C. Jeffrey	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Sechium edule (Jacq.) Sw.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Sechium hintonii (Paul G. Wilson) C. Jeffrey	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Sechium mexicanum Lira & M. Nee	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Sechium panamense (Wunderlin) Lira & F.Chiang	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Sechium pittieri (Cogn.) C.Jeffrey	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Sechium tacaco (Pittier) C. Jeffrey	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Sechium talamancensis (Wunderlin) C.Jeffrey	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Sechium venosum (L.D.Gómez) Lira & F.Chiang	Accepted		WCSP (in review)	2012-03-23
Sechium villosum (Wunderlin) C. Jeffrey	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18

Statistics

The Plant List includes 26 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Sechium. Of these 11 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 4 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Sechium. 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 26 species names for the genus Sechium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	42.3%
◕	Synonym	14	53.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	3.8%

All names

The status of the 30 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Sechium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	36.7%
◕	Synonym	18	60.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	3.3%

The confidence with which the status of the 26 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Sechium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	10	14	0	0	24	92.3%
	Low confidence	1	0	0	1	2	7.7%

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