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The genus Colocasia is in the family Araceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Colocasia

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Colocasia affinis Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Colocasia bicolor C.L.Long & L.M.Cao	Accepted		WCSP
Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Colocasia fallax Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Colocasia formosana Hayata	Accepted		WCSP
Colocasia gaoligongensis H.Li & C.L.Long	Accepted		WCSP
Colocasia gigantea (Blume) Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Colocasia gongii C.L.Long & H.Li	Accepted		WCSP
Colocasia heterochroma H.Li & Z.X.Wei	Accepted		WCSP
Colocasia konishii Hayata	Accepted		WCSP
Colocasia lihengiae C.L.Long & K.M.Liu	Accepted		WCSP
Colocasia mannii Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Colocasia menglaensis J.T.Yin, H.Li & Z.F.Xu	Accepted		WCSP
Colocasia oresbia A.Hay	Accepted		WCSP
Colocasia tibetensis J.T.Yin	Accepted		WCSP
Colocasia yunnanensis C.L.Long & X.Z.Cai	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 67 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Colocasia. Of these 16 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 31 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Colocasia. 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 67 species names for the genus Colocasia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	23.9%
◕	Synonym	45	67.2%
◕	Unplaced	2	3.0%
◕	Unassessed	4	6.0%

All names

The status of the 98 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Colocasia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	16	16.3%
◕	Synonym	76	77.6%
◕	Unplaced	2	2.0%
◕	Unassessed	4	4.1%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid

The confidence with which the status of the 67 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Colocasia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	16	43	0	0	59	88.1%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	2	2	4	8	11.9%

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