The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Colchicaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Colchicaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Colchicaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 15 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 752 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Colchicaceae. Of these 253 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 220 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Colchicaceae. 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 752 species names for the family Colchicaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 253 33.6%
Synonym 485 64.5%
Unplaced 5 0.7%
Unassessed 9 1.2%

All names

The status of the 972 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Colchicaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 278 28.6%
Synonym 680 70.0%
Unplaced 5 0.5%
Unassessed 9 0.9%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 752 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Colchicaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 252 477 0 0 729 96.9%
Medium confidence 1 2 0 0 3 0.4%
Low confidence 0 6 5 9 20 2.7%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 1 2 0 9 0 12 1.6%
WCSP 252 483 5 0 1 741 98.5%