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 and unassessed names in Colchicaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Colchicaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 18 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 844 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Colchicaceae. Of these 284 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 276 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 844 species names for the family Colchicaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
◕ Accepted 284 33.6%
◕ Synonym 542 64.2%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 18 2.1%

All names

The status of the 1,120 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Colchicaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
◕ Accepted 300 26.8%
◕ Synonym 802 71.6%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 18 1.6%

Of the species names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 844 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Colchicaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 280 532 0 0 812 96.2%
Medium confidence 4 4 0 0 8 0.9%
Low confidence 0 6 0 18 24 2.8%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 4 4 0 12 0 20 2.4%
WCSP 280 538 0 5 1 823 97.5%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1%