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The genus Veratrum is in the family Melanthiaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Veratrum

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Veratrum albiflorum Tolm.	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum album L.	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum alpestre Nakai	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum anticleoides (Trautv. & C.A.Mey.) Takeda & Miyake	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum californicum Durand	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum chiengdaoense K.Larsen	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum dahuricum (Turcz.) O.Loes.	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum dolichopetalum O.Loes.	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum fimbriatum A.Gray	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum formosanum O.Loes.	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum grandiflorum (Maxim. ex Miq.) O.Loes.	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum insolitum Jeps.	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum lobelianum Bernh.	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum longibracteatum Takeda	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum maackii Regel	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum mengtzeanum O.Loes.	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum micranthum F.T.Wang & Tang	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum nigrum L.	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum oblongum O.Loes.	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum oxysepalum Turcz.	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum schindleri O.Loes.	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum shanense W.W.Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum stamineum Maxim.	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum stenophyllum Diels	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum taliense O.Loes.	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum × tonussii Poldini	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum versicolor Nakai	Accepted		WCSP
Veratrum viride Aiton	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 83 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Veratrum. Of these 28 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 83 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Veratrum. 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 83 species names for the genus Veratrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	28	33.7%
◕	Synonym	52	62.7%
◕	Unplaced	1	1.2%
◕	Unassessed	2	2.4%

All names

The status of the 166 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Veratrum recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	35	21.1%
◕	Synonym	128	77.1%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.6%
◕	Unassessed	2	1.2%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 83 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Veratrum, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	28	50	0	0	78	94.0%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	2.4%
	Low confidence	0	0	1	2	3	3.6%

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