The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Colocasia

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Colocasia

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

Name Status Confi­dence level Source Date supplied Infra. rec.
Colocasia affinis Schott Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Colocasia antiquorum Schott Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Colocasia fallax Schott Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Colocasia gigantea (Blume) Hook.f. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Colocasia latifolia Rojas Acosta Unresolved L WCSP 2012-03-23
Colocasia mannii Hook.f. Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Colocasia × marchalii Engl. Unresolved L WCSP 2012-03-23
Colocasia marchalii Engl. Unresolved L TRO 2012-04-18
Colocasia menglaensis J.T.Yin, H.Li & Z.F.Xu Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Colocasia nitida Walp. Unresolved L TRO 2012-04-18
Colocasia oresbia A.Hay Accepted H WCSP 2012-03-23
Colocasia zebrina hort. ex Engl. Unresolved L TRO 2012-04-18

Statistics

The Plant List includes 67 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Colocasia. Of these 8 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 31 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Colocasia. 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 67 species names for the genus Colocasia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 8 11.9%
Synonym 54 80.6%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 5 7.5%

All names

The status of the 98 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Colocasia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 8 8.2%
Synonym 85 86.7%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 5 5.1%

Of the species names,

The confidence with which the status of the 67 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Colocasia, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 8 53 0 0 61 91.0%
Medium confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Low confidence 0 1 0 5 6 9.0%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Colocasia is as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 0 0 3 0 3 4.5%
WCSP 8 54 0 2 0 64 95.5%