Asparagaceae

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

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Genera in Asparagaceae

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A list of all accepted names in Asparagaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Asparagaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 143 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 11,849 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Asparagaceae. Of these 3,632 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2,902 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 11,849 species names for the family Asparagaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3,632	30.7%
◕	Synonym	7,498	63.3%
◕	Unplaced	549	4.6%
◕	Unassessed	170	1.4%

All names

The status of the 14,751 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Asparagaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	4,082	27.7%
◕	Synonym	9,941	67.4%
◕	Unplaced	551	3.7%
◕	Unassessed	177	1.2%

Of these names,

203 are recorded as invalid
441 are recorded as illegitimate
9 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 10 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 11,849 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Asparagaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	3,608	7,108	0	0	10,716	90.4%
Medium confidence	17	152	0	0	169	1.4%
Low confidence	7	238	549	170	964	8.1%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
Tropicos	19	164	0	137	0	320	2.7%
WCSP	3,613	7,333	549	5	10	11,510	97.1%
WCSP (in review)	0	1	0	28	0	29	0.2%