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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Caladium

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Caladium andreanum Bogner	Accepted		WCSP
Caladium bicolor (Aiton) Vent.	Accepted		WCSP
Caladium coerulescens G.S.Bunting	Accepted		WCSP
Caladium humboldtii (Raf.) Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Caladium lindenii (André) Madison	Accepted		WCSP
Caladium macrotites Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Caladium picturatum K.Koch & C.D.Bouché	Accepted		WCSP
Caladium schomburgkii Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Caladium smaragdinum K.Koch & C.D.Bouché	Accepted		WCSP
Caladium steyermarkii G.S.Bunting	Accepted		WCSP
Caladium ternatum Madison	Accepted		WCSP
Caladium tuberosum (S.Moore) Bogner & Mayo	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 226 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Caladium. Of these 12 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 98 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Caladium. 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 226 species names for the genus Caladium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	12	5.3%
◕	Synonym	188	83.2%
◕	Unplaced	8	3.5%
◕	Unassessed	18	8.0%

All names

The status of the 324 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Caladium recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	12	3.7%
◕	Synonym	286	88.3%
◕	Unplaced	8	2.5%
◕	Unassessed	18	5.6%

Of these names,

• 12 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 226 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Caladium, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	12	179	0	0	191	84.5%
	Medium confidence	0	9	0	0	9	4.0%
	Low confidence	0	0	8	18	26	11.5%

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