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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Xanthosoma

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Xanthosoma acutum E.G.Gonç.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma akkermansii (G.S.Bunting) Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma aristeguietae (G.S.Bunting) Madison	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma auriculatum Regel	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma baguense Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma bayo G.S.Bunting	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma belophyllum (Willd.) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma bilineatum Rusby	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma bolivaranum G.S.Bunting	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma brasiliense (Desf.) Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma brevispathaceum Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma caladioides Grayum	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma caracu K.Koch & C.D.Bouché	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma caulotuberculatum G.S.Bunting	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma conspurcatum Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma contractum G.S.Bunting	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma cordatum N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma cordifolium N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma cubense (Schott) Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma daguense Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma dealbatum Grayum	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma eggersii (Engl.) Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma exiguum G.S.Bunting	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma flavomaculatum Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma fractum Madison	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma granvillei Croat & Thomps.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma guttatum Croat & D.C.Bay	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma hebetatum Croat & D.C.Bay	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma helleborifolium (Jacq.) Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma hylaeae Engl. & K.Krause	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma latestigmatum Bogner & E.G.Gonç.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma longilobum G.S.Bunting	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma lucens E.G.Gonç.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma mafaffoides G.S.Bunting	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma mariae Bogner & E.G.Gonç.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma maroae G.S.Bunting	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma maximiliani Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma mendozae Matuda	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma mexicanum Liebm.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma narinoense Bogner & L.P.Hannon	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma nitidum G.S.Bunting	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma obtusilobum Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma orinocense G.S.Bunting	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma paradoxum (Bogner & Mayo) Bogner	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma pariense G.S.Bunting	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma peltatum G.S.Bunting	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma pentaphyllum (Schott) Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma platylobum (Schott) Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma plowmanii Bogner	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma poeppigii Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma pottii E.G.Gonç.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma puberulum Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma pubescens Poepp.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma pulchrum E.G.Gonç.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma riedelianum (Schott) Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma riparium E.G.Gonç.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma robustum Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma sagittifolium (L.) Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma saguasense G.S.Bunting	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma seideliae Croat	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma stenospathum Madison	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma striatipes (Kunth & C.D.Bouché) Madison	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma striolatum Mart. ex Schott	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma syngoniifolium Rusby	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma tarapotense Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma trichophyllum K.Krause	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma trilobum G.S.Bunting	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma ulei Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma undipes (K.Koch & C.D.Bouché) K.Koch	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma viviparum Madison	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma weeksii Madison	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma wendlandii (Schott) Standl.	Accepted		WCSP
Xanthosoma yucatanense Engl.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 140 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Xanthosoma. Of these 73 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 20 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Xanthosoma. 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 140 species names for the genus Xanthosoma recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	73	52.1%
◕	Synonym	45	32.1%
◕	Unplaced	6	4.3%
◕	Unassessed	16	11.4%

All names

The status of the 160 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Xanthosoma recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	74	46.3%
◕	Synonym	64	40.0%
◕	Unplaced	6	3.8%
◕	Unassessed	16	10.0%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 140 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Xanthosoma, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	73	38	0	0	111	79.3%
	Medium confidence	0	7	0	0	7	5.0%
	Low confidence	0	0	6	16	22	15.7%

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