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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Dieffenbachia

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Dieffenbachia aglaonematifolia Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia antioquensis Linden & André	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia aurantiaca Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia bechiana Croat & Grayum	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia bowmannii Carrière	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia brittonii Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia burgeri Croat & Grayum	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia cannifolia Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia concinna Croat & Grayum	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia copensis Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia cordata Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia costata Klotzsch ex Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia crebripistillata Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia daguensis Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia davidsei Croat & Grayum	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia duidae (Steyerm.) G.S.Bunting	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia elegans A.M.E.Jonker & Jonker	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia enderi Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia fortunensis Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia fosteri Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia fournieri N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia galdamesiae Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia gracilis Huber	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia grayumiana Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia hammelii Croat & Grayum	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia herthae Diels	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia horichii Croat & Grayum	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia humilis Poepp.	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia imperialis Linden & André	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia isthmia Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia killipii Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia lancifolia Linden & André	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia leopoldii W.Bull	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia longispatha Engl. & K.Krause	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia lutheri Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia macrophylla Poepp.	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia meleagris L.Linden & Rodigas	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia nitidipetiolata Croat & Grayum	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia obliqua Poepp.	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia obscurinervia Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia oerstedii Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia olbia L.Linden & Rodigas	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia paludicola N.E.Br. ex Gleason	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia panamensis Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia parlatorei Linden & André	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia parvifolia Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia pittieri Engl. & K.Krause	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia seguine (Jacq.) Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia shuttleworthiana Regel	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia standleyi Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia tonduzii Croat & Grayum	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia weberbaueri Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia weirii Berk.	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia wendlandii Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia williamsii Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dieffenbachia wurdackii Croat	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 227 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Dieffenbachia. Of these 56 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 32 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Dieffenbachia. 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 227 species names for the genus Dieffenbachia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	56	24.7%
◕	Synonym	38	16.7%
◕	Unplaced	3	1.3%
◕	Unassessed	130	57.3%

All names

The status of the 259 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Dieffenbachia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	56	21.6%
◕	Synonym	70	27.0%
◕	Unplaced	3	1.2%
◕	Unassessed	130	50.2%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid

The confidence with which the status of the 227 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Dieffenbachia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	56	37	0	0	93	41.0%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	0.4%
	Low confidence	0	0	3	130	133	58.6%

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