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The genus Aframomum is in the family Zingiberaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Aframomum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Aframomum albiflorum Lock	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum alboviolaceum (Ridl.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum alpinum (Gagnep.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum amaniense Loes.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum angustifolium (Sonn.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum arundinaceum (Oliv. & D.Hanb.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum atewae Lock & J.B.Hall	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum aulacocarpos Pellegr. ex Koechlin	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum cereum (Hook.f.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum chrysanthum Lock	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum citratum (C.Pereira) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum colosseum K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum cordifolium Lock & J.B.Hall	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum corrorima (C.Pereira) P.C.M.Jansen	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum daniellii (Hook.f.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum elegans Lock	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum elliottii (Baker) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum exscapum (Sims) Hepper	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum flavum Lock	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum geocarpum Lock & J.B.Hall	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum giganteum (Oliv. & D.Hanb.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum kayserianum (K.Schum.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum laurentii (De Wild. & T.Durand) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum laxiflorum Loes. ex Lock	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum leptolepis (K.Schum.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum letestuanum Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum limbatum (Oliv. & D.Hanb.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum longiligulatum Koechlin	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum longipetiolatum Koechlin	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum longiscapum (Hook.f.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum luteoalbum (K.Schum.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum makandensis Dhetchuvi	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum mala (K.Schum. ex Engl.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum mannii (Oliv. & D.Hanb.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum melegueta K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum mildbraedii Loes.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum orientale Lock	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum pilosum (Oliv. & D.Hanb.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum polyanthum (K.Schum.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum pruinosum Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum pseudostipulare Loes. & Mildbr. ex Koechlin	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum rostratum K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum sceleratum A.Chev.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum singulariflorum Dhetchuvi	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum spiroligulatum Lock & A.D.Poulsen	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum stanfieldii Hepper	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum strobilaceum (Sm.) Hepper	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum subsericeum (Oliv. & D.Hanb.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum sulcatum (Oliv. & D.Hanb. ex Baker) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum thonneri De Wild.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum uniflorum Lock & A.D.Poulsen	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum verrucosum Lock	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum wuerthii Dhetchuvi & Eb.Fisch.	Accepted		WCSP
Aframomum zambesiacum (Baker) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 85 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Aframomum. Of these 54 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Aframomum. 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 85 species names for the genus Aframomum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	54	63.5%
◕	Synonym	26	30.6%
◕	Unplaced	1	1.2%
◕	Unassessed	4	4.7%

All names

The status of the 87 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Aframomum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	55	63.2%
◕	Synonym	27	31.0%
◕	Unplaced	1	1.1%
◕	Unassessed	4	4.6%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 85 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Aframomum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	54	26	0	0	80	94.1%
	Medium confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Low confidence	0	0	1	4	5	5.9%

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