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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Polygonatum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Polygonatum acuminatifolium Kom.	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum adnatum S.Yun Liang	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum altelobatum Hayata	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum alternicirrhosum Hand.-Mazz.	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum amabile Yatabe	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum arisanense Hayata	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum × azegamii (Ohwi) M.N.Tamura	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum biflorum (Walter) Elliott	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum brevistylum Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum × buschianum Tzvelev	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum cathcartii Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum chingshuishanianum S.S.Ying	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum cirrhifolium (Wall.) Royle	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum cryptanthum H.Lév. & Vaniot	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum curvistylum Hua	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum cyrtonema Hua	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum × desoulavyi Kom.	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum desoulayi Kom.	Accepted		TRO
Polygonatum × domonense Satake	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum falcatum A.Gray	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum filipes Merr. ex C.Jeffrey & McEwan	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum franchetii Hua	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum geminiflorum Decne.	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum glaberrimum K.Koch	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum gracile P.Y.Li	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum graminifolium Hook.	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum grandicaule Y.S.Kim, B.U.Oh & C.G.Jang	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum griffithii Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum hirtellum Hand.-Mazz.	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum hirtum (Bosc ex Poir.) Pursh	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum hookeri Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum humile Fisch. ex Maxim.	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum × hybridum Brügger	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum inflatum Kom.	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum infundiflorum Y.S.Kim, B.U.Oh & C.G.Jang	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum involucratum (Franch. & Sav.) Maxim.	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum jinzhaiense D.C.Zhang & J.Z.Shao	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum kingianum Collett & Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum lasianthum Maxim.	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum leiboense S.C.Chen & D.Q.Liu	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum longipedunculatum S.Yun Liang	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum longistylum Y.Wan ex C.Z.Gao	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum macranthum (Maxim.) Koidz.	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum macropodum Turcz.	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum megaphyllum P.Y.Li	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum multiflorum (L.) All.	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum nervulosum Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum nodosum Hua	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum odoratum (Mill.) Druce	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum omeiense Z.Y.Zhu	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum oppositifolium (Wall.) Royle	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum orientale Desf.	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum prattii Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum × pseudopolyanthemum Miscz. ex Grossh.	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum pubescens (Willd.) Pursh	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum punctatum Royle ex Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum robustum (Korsh.) Nakai	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum roseum (Ledeb.) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum sewerzowii Regel	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum sibiricum F.Delaroche	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum singalilense H.Hara	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum sparsifolium F.T.Wang & Tang	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum stenophyllum Maxim.	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum stewartianum Diels	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum × tamaense H.Hara	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum tessellatum F.T.Wang & Tang	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum verticillatum (L.) All.	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum vietnamicum L.I.Abramova	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum wardii F.T.Wang & Tang	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum zanlanscianense Pamp.	Accepted		WCSP
Polygonatum zhejiangensis X.J.Xue & H.Yao	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 200 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Polygonatum. Of these 71 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 99 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Polygonatum. 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 200 species names for the genus Polygonatum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	71	35.5%
◕	Synonym	125	62.5%
◕	Unplaced	3	1.5%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.5%

All names

The status of the 299 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Polygonatum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	78	26.1%
◕	Synonym	217	72.6%
◕	Unplaced	3	1.0%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.3%

Of these names,

• 4 are recorded as invalid
• 14 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 200 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Polygonatum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	70	124	0	0	194	97.0%
	Medium confidence	1	1	0	0	2	1.0%
	Low confidence	0	0	3	1	4	2.0%

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