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The genus Sechium is in the family Cucurbitaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Sechium

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Sechium chinantlense Lira & F. Chiang	Accepted		TRO
Sechium compositum (Donn. Sm.) C. Jeffrey	Accepted		TRO
Sechium edule (Jacq.) Sw.	Accepted		WCSP (in review)
Sechium hintonii (Paul G. Wilson) C. Jeffrey	Accepted		TRO
Sechium mexicanum Lira & M. Nee	Accepted		TRO
Sechium panamense (Wunderlin) Lira & F. Chiang	Accepted		TRO
Sechium pittieri (Cogn.) C. Jeffrey	Accepted		TRO
Sechium tacaco (Pittier) C. Jeffrey	Accepted		TRO
Sechium talamancense (Wunderlin) C. Jeffrey	Accepted		TRO
Sechium venosum (L.D. Gómez) Lira & F. Chiang	Accepted		TRO
Sechium villosum (Wunderlin) C. Jeffrey	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 16 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Sechium. Of these 11 are accepted species names.

Species names

The status of the 16 species names for the genus Sechium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	68.8%
◕	Synonym	5	31.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

All names

The status of the 16 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Sechium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	11	68.8%
◕	Synonym	5	31.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	0	0%

The confidence with which the status of the 16 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Sechium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	7	5	0	0	12	75.0%
	Low confidence	4	0	0	0	4	25.0%

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