Statistics

Species of Dioscoreaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 6 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 1,423 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Dioscoreaceae. Of these 650 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 363 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Dioscoreaceae. 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 1,423 species names for the family Dioscoreaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	650	45.7%
◕	Synonym	728	51.2%
◕	Unplaced	19	1.3%
◕	Unassessed	26	1.8%

All names

The status of the 1,786 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Dioscoreaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	674	37.7%
◕	Synonym	1,067	59.7%
◕	Unplaced	19	1.1%
◕	Unassessed	26	1.5%

Of these names,

• 23 are recorded as invalid
• 59 are recorded as illegitimate
• 2 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 1,423 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Dioscoreaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	647	686	0	0	1,333	93.7%
	Medium confidence	3	39	0	0	42	3.0%
	Low confidence	0	3	19	26	48	3.4%

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