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

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Species in Curcuma

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Curcuma aeruginosa Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma albiflora Thwaites	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma alismatifolia Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma amada Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma amarissima Roscoe	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma angustifolia Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma antinaia Chaveer. & Tanee	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma aromatica Salisb.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma attenuata Wall. ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma aurantiaca Zijp	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma australasica Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma bakeriana Hemsl.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma bhatii (R.M.Sm.) Škornick. & M.Sabu	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma bicolor Mood & K.Larsen	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma caesia Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma ceratotheca K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma cochinchinensis Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma codonantha Škornick., M.Sabu & Prasanthk.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma coerulea K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma colorata Valeton	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma comosa Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma coriacea Mangaly & M.Sabu	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma decipiens Dalzell	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma ecalcarata Sivar. & Balach.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma ecomata Craib	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma elata Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma exigua N.Liu	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma ferruginea Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma flaviflora S.Q.Tong	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma glans K.Larsen & Mood	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma gracillima Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma grandiflora Wall. ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma haritha Mangaly & M.Sabu	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma harmandii Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma heyneana Valeton & Zijp	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma inodora Blatt.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma karnatakensis Amalraj, Velay. & Mural.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma kudagensis Velay., V.S.Pillai & Amalraj	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma kwangsiensis S.G.Lee & C.F.Liang	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma larsenii Maknoi & Jenjitt.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma latiflora Valeton	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma latifolia Roscoe	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma leucorrhiza Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma loerzingii Valeton	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma longa L.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma longispica Valeton	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma mangga Valeton & Zijp	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma meraukensis Valeton	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma montana Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma mutabilis Škornick., M.Sabu & Prasanthk.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma nankunshanensis N.Liu, X.B.Ye & Juan Chen	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma neilgherrensis Wight	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma oligantha Trimen	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma ornata Wall. ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma parviflora Wall.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma parvula Gage	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma peethapushpa Sasidh. & Sivar.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma petiolata Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma phaeocaulis Valeton	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma picta Roxb. ex Škornick.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma pierreana Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma plicata Wall. ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma porphyrotaenia Zipp. ex Span.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma prakasha S.Tripathi	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma pseudomontana J.Graham	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma purpurascens Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma purpurea Blatt.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma raktakanta Mangaly & M.Sabu	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma reclinata Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma rhabdota Sirirugsa & M.F.Newman	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma rhomba Mood & K.Larsen	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma roscoeana Wall.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma rubescens Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma rubrobracteata Škornick., M.Sabu & Prasanthk.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma sattayasaiorum Chaveer. & Sudmoon	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma sichuanensis X.X.Chen	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma singularis Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma sparganiifolia Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma stenochila Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma strobilifera Wall. ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma sulcata Haines	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma sumatrana Miq.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma sylvatica Valeton	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma thalakaveriensis Velay., Amalraj & Mural.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma thorelii Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma trichosantha Gagnep.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma vamana M.Sabu & Mangaly	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma viridiflora Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma yunnanensis N.Liu & S.J.Chen	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma zanthorrhiza Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma zedoaria (Christm.) Roscoe	Accepted		WCSP
Curcuma zedoarioides Chaveer. & Tanee	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 132 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Curcuma. Of these 92 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 6 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Curcuma. 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 132 species names for the genus Curcuma recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	92	69.7%
◕	Synonym	36	27.3%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.8%
◕	Unassessed	3	2.3%

All names

The status of the 138 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Curcuma recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	92	66.7%
◕	Synonym	42	30.4%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.7%
◕	Unassessed	3	2.2%

Of these names,

• 4 are recorded as invalid
• 3 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 132 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Curcuma, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	92	35	0	0	127	96.2%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	0.8%
	Low confidence	0	0	1	3	4	3.0%

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