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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Yucca

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Yucca aloifolia L.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca angustissima Engelm. ex Trel.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca arkansana Trel.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca baccata Torr.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca baileyi Wooton & Standl.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca brevifolia Engelm.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca campestris McKelvey	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca capensis L.W.Lenz	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca carnerosana (Trel.) McKelvey	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca cernua E.L.Keith	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca coahuilensis Matuda & I.L.Pina	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca constricta Buckley	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca de-smetiana Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca decipiens Trel.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca declinata Laferr.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca elata (Engelm.) Engelm.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca elephantipes Regel	Accepted		TRO
Yucca endlichiana Trel.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca faxoniana Sarg.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca filamentosa L.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca filifera Chabaud	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca flaccida Haw.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca gigantea Lem.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca glauca Nutt.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca gloriosa L.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca grandiflora Gentry	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca harrimaniae Trel.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca intermedia McKelvey	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca jaliscensis (Trel.) Trel.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca lacandonica Gómez Pompa & J.Valdés	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca linearifolia Clary	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca madrensis Gentry	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca mixtecana García-Mend.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca necopina Shinners	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca neomexicana Wooton & Standl.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca pallida McKelvey	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca periculosa Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca potosina Rzed.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca queretaroensis Piña Luján	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca reverchonii Trel.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca rigida (Engelm.) Trel.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca rostrata Engelm. ex Trel.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca rupicola Scheele	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca schidigera Roezl ex Ortgies	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca × schottii Engelm.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca tenuistyla Trel.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca thompsoniana Trel.	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca treculeana Carrière	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca utahensis McKelvey	Accepted		WCSP
Yucca valida Brandegee	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 284 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Yucca. Of these 50 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 186 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Yucca. 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 284 species names for the genus Yucca recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	50	17.6%
◕	Synonym	193	68.0%
◕	Unplaced	33	11.6%
◕	Unassessed	8	2.8%

All names

The status of the 470 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Yucca recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	60	12.8%
◕	Synonym	368	78.3%
◕	Unplaced	33	7.0%
◕	Unassessed	9	1.9%

Of these names,

• 4 are recorded as invalid
• 16 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 284 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Yucca, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	48	128	0	0	176	62.0%
	Medium confidence	1	6	0	0	7	2.5%
	Low confidence	1	59	33	8	101	35.6%

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