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The genus Asphodelus is in the family Xanthorrhoeaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Asphodelus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Asphodelus acaulis Desf.	Accepted		WCSP
Asphodelus aestivus Brot.	Accepted		WCSP
Asphodelus albus Mill.	Accepted		WCSP
Asphodelus ayardii Jahand. & Maire	Accepted		WCSP
Asphodelus bakeri Breistr.	Accepted		WCSP
Asphodelus bento-rainhae P.Silva	Accepted		WCSP
Asphodelus cerasiferus J.Gay	Accepted		WCSP
Asphodelus fistulosus L.	Accepted		WCSP
Asphodelus gracilis Braun-Blanq. & Maire	Accepted		WCSP
Asphodelus lusitanicus Cout.	Accepted		WCSP
Asphodelus macrocarpus Parl.	Accepted		WCSP
Asphodelus ramosus L.	Accepted		WCSP
Asphodelus refractus Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Asphodelus roseus Humbert & Maire	Accepted		WCSP
Asphodelus serotinus Wolley-Dod	Accepted		WCSP
Asphodelus tenuifolius Cav.	Accepted		WCSP
Asphodelus viscidulus Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 111 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Asphodelus. Of these 17 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 87 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Asphodelus. 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 111 species names for the genus Asphodelus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	17	15.3%
◕	Synonym	91	82.0%
◕	Unplaced	2	1.8%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.9%

All names

The status of the 198 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Asphodelus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	27	13.6%
◕	Synonym	168	84.8%
◕	Unplaced	2	1.0%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.5%

Of these names,

• 6 are recorded as invalid
• 11 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 111 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Asphodelus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	17	90	0	0	107	96.4%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	0.9%
	Low confidence	0	0	2	1	3	2.7%

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