The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Sechium

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

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
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:

Pie chart of all name statuses
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:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 6 4 0 0 0 10 38.5%
WCSP (in review) 5 10 0 1 0 16 61.5%