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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cordyline

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Cordyline angustissima K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline australis (G.Forst.) Endl.	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline banksii Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline cannifolia R.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline casanovae Linden ex André	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline congesta (Sweet) Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline forbesii Rendle	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline fruticosa (L.) A.Chev.	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline × gibbingsiae Carse	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline indivisa (G.Forst.) Endl.	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline lateralis Lauterb.	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline ledermannii K.Krause	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline manners-suttoniae F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline × matthewsii Carse	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline mauritiana (Lam.) J.F.Macbr.	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline minutiflora Ridl.	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline murchisoniae F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline neocaledonica (Baker) B.D.Jacks.	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline obtecta (Graham) Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline petiolaris (Domin) Pedley	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline pumilio Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline racemosa Ridl.	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline rubra Otto & A.Dietr.	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline schlechteri Lauterb.	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline sellowiana Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Cordyline stricta (Sims) Endl.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 114 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cordyline. Of these 26 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 26 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cordyline. 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 114 species names for the genus Cordyline recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	26	22.8%
◕	Synonym	77	67.5%
◕	Unplaced	10	8.8%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.9%

All names

The status of the 140 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cordyline recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	26	18.6%
◕	Synonym	103	73.6%
◕	Unplaced	10	7.1%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.7%

Of these names,

• 6 are recorded as invalid
• 6 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 114 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cordyline, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	26	74	0	0	100	87.7%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	0.9%
	Low confidence	0	2	10	1	13	11.4%

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