The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Asparagaceae

The family Asparagaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Asparagaceae

A list of all accepted names in Asparagaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Asparagaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 143 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 11,849 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Asparagaceae. Of these 3,632 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2,902 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Asparagaceae. 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 11,849 species names for the family Asparagaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 3,632 30.7%
Synonym 7,498 63.3%
Unplaced 549 4.6%
Unassessed 170 1.4%

All names

The status of the 14,751 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Asparagaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 4,082 27.7%
Synonym 9,941 67.4%
Unplaced 551 3.7%
Unassessed 177 1.2%

Of these names,

A further 10 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 11,849 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Asparagaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 3,608 7,108 0 0 10,716 90.4%
Medium confidence 17 152 0 0 169 1.4%
Low confidence 7 238 549 170 964 8.1%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 19 164 0 137 0 320 2.7%
WCSP 3,613 7,333 549 5 10 11,510 97.1%
WCSP (in review) 0 1 0 28 0 29 0.2%