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,

• 20 are recorded as invalid
• 45 are recorded as illegitimate

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: