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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Dasylirion

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Dasylirion acrotrichum (Schiede) Zucc.	Accepted		WCSP
Dasylirion berlandieri S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP
Dasylirion cedrosanum Trel.	Accepted		WCSP
Dasylirion durangense Trel.	Accepted		WCSP
Dasylirion gentryi Bogler	Accepted		WCSP
Dasylirion glaucophyllum Hook.	Accepted		WCSP
Dasylirion graminifolium (Zucc.) Zucc.	Accepted		WCSP
Dasylirion leiophyllum Engelm. ex Trel.	Accepted		WCSP
Dasylirion longissimum Lem.	Accepted		WCSP
Dasylirion longistylum J.F.Macbr.	Accepted		WCSP
Dasylirion lucidum Rose	Accepted		WCSP
Dasylirion miquihuanense Bogler	Accepted		WCSP
Dasylirion palaciosii Rzed.	Accepted		WCSP
Dasylirion parryanum Trel.	Accepted		WCSP
Dasylirion quadrangulatum S.Watson	Accepted		WCSP
Dasylirion sereke Bogler	Accepted		WCSP
Dasylirion serratifolium (Karw. ex Schult. & Schult.f.) Zucc.	Accepted		WCSP
Dasylirion simplex Trel.	Accepted		WCSP
Dasylirion texanum Scheele	Accepted		WCSP
Dasylirion wheeleri S.Watson ex Rothr.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 49 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Dasylirion. Of these 20 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 7 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Dasylirion. 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 49 species names for the genus Dasylirion recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	20	40.8%
◕	Synonym	28	57.1%
◕	Unplaced	1	2.0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 56 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Dasylirion recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	20	35.7%
◕	Synonym	35	62.5%
◕	Unplaced	1	1.8%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

Of these names,

• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 49 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Dasylirion, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	20	27	0	0	47	95.9%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	2.0%
	Low confidence	0	0	1	0	1	2.0%

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