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The genus Chamaedorea is in the family Arecaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Chamaedorea

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Chamaedorea adscendens (Dammer) Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea allenii L.H.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea alternans H.Wendl.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea amabilis H.Wendl.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea anemophila Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea angustisecta Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea arenbergiana H.Wendl.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea atrovirens Mart.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea benziei Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea binderi Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea brachyclada H.Wendl.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea brachypoda Standl. & Steyerm.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea carchensis Standl. & Steyerm.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea castillo-montii Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea cataractarum Mart.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea christinae Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea correae Hodel & N.W.Uhl	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea costaricana Oerst.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea crucensis Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea dammeriana Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea deckeriana (Klotzsch) Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea deneversiana Grayum & Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea elatior Mart.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea elegans Mart.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea ernesti-augusti H.Wendl.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea falcifera H.E.Moore	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea foveata Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea fractiflexa Hodel & Cast.Mont	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea fragrans (Ruiz & Pav.) Mart.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea frondosa Hodel, Cast.Mont & Zúñiga	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea geonomiformis H.Wendl.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea glaucifolia H.Wendl.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea graminifolia H.Wendl.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea guntheriana Hodel & N.W.Uhl	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea hodelii Grayum	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea hooperiana Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea ibarrae Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea incrustata Hodel, G.Herrera & Casc.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea keelerorum Hodel & Cast.Mont	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea klotzschiana H.Wendl.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea latisecta (H.E.Moore) A.H.Gentry	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea lehmannii Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea liebmannii Mart.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea linearis (Ruiz & Pav.) Mart.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea lucidifrons L.H.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea macrospadix Oerst.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea matae Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea metallica O.F.Cook ex H.E.Moore	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea microphylla H.Wendl.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea microspadix Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea moliniana Hodel, Cast.Mont & Zúñiga	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea murriensis Galeano	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea nationsiana Hodel & Cast.Mont	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea neurochlamys Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea nubium Standl. & Steyerm.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea oblongata Mart.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea oreophila Mart.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea pachecoana Standl. & Steyerm.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea palmeriana Hodel & N.W.Uhl	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea parvifolia Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea parvisecta Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea pauciflora Mart.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea pedunculata Hodel & N.W.Uhl	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea pinnatifrons (Jacq.) Oerst.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea piscifolia Hodel, G.Herrera & Casc.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea pittieri L.H.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea plumosa Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea pochutlensis Liebm.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea ponderosa Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea pumila H.Wendl.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea pygmaea H.Wendl.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea queroana Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea radicalis Mart.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea recurvata Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea rhizomatosa Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea ricardoi R.Bernal, Galeano & Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea rigida H.Wendl.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea robertii Hodel & N.W.Uhl	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea rojasiana Standl. & Steyerm.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea rosibeliae Hodel, G.Herrera & Casc.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea rossteniorum Hodel, G.Herrera & Casc.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea sartorii Liebm.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea scheryi L.H.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea schiedeana Mart.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea schippii Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea seifrizii Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea selvae Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea serpens Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea simplex Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea skutchii Standl. & Steyerm.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea smithii A.H.Gentry	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea stenocarpa Standl. & Steyerm.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea stolonifera H.Wendl. ex Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea stricta Standl. & Steyerm.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea subjectifolia Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea tenerrima Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea tepejilote Liebm.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea tuerckheimii (Dammer) Burret	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea undulatifolia Hodel & N.W.Uhl	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea verapazensis Hodel & Cast.Mont	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea verecunda Grayum & Hodel	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea volcanensis Hodel & Cast.Mont	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea vulgata Standl. & Steyerm.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea warscewiczii H.Wendl.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea whitelockiana Hodel & N.W.Uhl	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea woodsoniana L.H.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaedorea zamorae Hodel	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 255 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Chamaedorea. Of these 107 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 10 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Chamaedorea. 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 255 species names for the genus Chamaedorea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	107	42.0%
◕	Synonym	134	52.5%
◕	Unplaced	5	2.0%
◕	Unassessed	9	3.5%

All names

The status of the 265 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Chamaedorea recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	107	40.4%
◕	Synonym	144	54.3%
◕	Unplaced	5	1.9%
◕	Unassessed	9	3.4%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 255 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Chamaedorea, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	107	112	0	0	219	85.9%
	Medium confidence	0	21	0	0	21	8.2%
	Low confidence	0	1	5	9	15	5.9%

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