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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Asparagaceae

Asparagaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Asparagaceae

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A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Asparagaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Asparagaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 128 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 9,933 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Asparagaceae. Of these 2,929 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2,052 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Asparagaceae. 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 9,933 species names for the family Asparagaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,929	29.5%
◕	Synonym	6,392	64.4%
◕	Unplaced	28	0.3%
◕	Unassessed	584	5.9%

All names

The status of the 11,985 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Asparagaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3,093	25.8%
◕	Synonym	8,272	69.0%
◕	Unplaced	28	0.2%
◕	Unassessed	592	4.9%

Of the species names,

178 are recorded as invalid
396 are recorded as illegitimate
5 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 8 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 9,933 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Asparagaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	2,887	6,148	0	0	9,035	91.0%
Medium confidence	42	120	0	0	162	1.6%
Low confidence	0	124	28	584	736	7.4%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
RJP	0	0	1	0	0	1	0.0%
Tropicos	42	123	4	137	0	306	3.1%
WCSP	2,887	6,266	0	447	8	9,600	96.6%
WCSP (in review)	0	3	23	0	0	26	0.3%