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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Dracontium

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Dracontium amazonense G.H.Zhu & Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium angustispathum G.H.Zhu & Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium asperispathum G.H.Zhu & Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium asperum K.Koch	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium bogneri G.H.Zhu & Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium croatii G.H.Zhu	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium dubium Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium gigas (Seem.) Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium grandispathum G.H.Zhu & Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium grayumianum G.H.Zhu & Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium guianense G.H.Zhu & Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium iquitense E.C.Morgan & J.A.Sperling	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium longipes Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium margaretae Bogner	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium nivosum (Lem.) G.H.Zhu	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium peruvianum G.H.Zhu & Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium pittieri Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium plowmanii G.H.Zhu & Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium polyphyllum L.	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium prancei G.H.Zhu & Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium purdieanum (Schott) Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium soconuscum Matuda	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium spruceanum (Schott) G.H.Zhu	Accepted		WCSP
Dracontium ulei K.Krause	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 63 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Dracontium. Of these 24 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Dracontium. 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 63 species names for the genus Dracontium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	24	38.1%
◕	Synonym	34	54.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	5	7.9%

All names

The status of the 64 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Dracontium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	24	37.5%
◕	Synonym	35	54.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	5	7.8%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 63 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Dracontium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	24	32	0	0	56	88.9%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	3.2%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	5	5	7.9%

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