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The genus Arum is in the family Araceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Arum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Arum albispathum hort. ex Engl.	Accepted		TRO
Arum alpinariae (Alpinar & R.R.Mill) P.C.Boyce	Accepted		WCSP
Arum apulum (Carano) P.C.Boyce	Accepted		WCSP
Arum balansanum R.R.Mill	Accepted		WCSP
Arum besserianum Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Arum byzantinum Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Arum concinnatum Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Arum cordatum (Kunth) Vell.	Accepted		TRO
Arum creticum Boiss. & Heldr.	Accepted		WCSP
Arum cylindraceum Gasp.	Accepted		WCSP
Arum cyrenaicum Hruby	Accepted		WCSP
Arum dioscoridis Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Arum elongatum Steven	Accepted		WCSP
Arum euxinum R.R.Mill	Accepted		WCSP
Arum gratum Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Arum hainesii Riedl	Accepted		WCSP
Arum hygrophilum Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Arum idaeum Coustur. & Gand.	Accepted		WCSP
Arum italicum Mill.	Accepted		WCSP
Arum jacquemontii Blume	Accepted		WCSP
Arum korolkowii Regel	Accepted		WCSP
Arum lucanum Cavara & Grande	Accepted		WCSP
Arum maculatum L.	Accepted		WCSP
Arum megobrebi Lobin, M.Neumann, Bogner & P.C.Boyce	Accepted		WCSP
Arum nigrum Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Arum orientale M.Bieb.	Accepted		WCSP
Arum palaestinum Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Arum pictum L.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Arum purpureospathum P.C.Boyce	Accepted		WCSP
Arum rupicola Boiss.	Accepted		WCSP
Arum sintenisii (Engl.) P.C.Boyce	Accepted		WCSP
Arum × sooi Terpó	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 289 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Arum. Of these 32 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 143 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Arum. 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 289 species names for the genus Arum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	32	11.1%
◕	Synonym	231	79.9%
◕	Unplaced	11	3.8%
◕	Unassessed	15	5.2%

All names

The status of the 432 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Arum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	44	10.2%
◕	Synonym	362	83.8%
◕	Unplaced	11	2.5%
◕	Unassessed	15	3.5%

Of these names,

• 7 are recorded as invalid
• 26 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 289 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Arum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	30	214	0	0	244	84.4%
	Medium confidence	2	15	0	0	17	5.9%
	Low confidence	0	2	11	15	28	9.7%

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