By P.M. Jørgensen

A preliminary analysis of the data at hand by January 1, 2007 has been performed and is summarized in the tables below. We find that 40% of the species are vulnerable or endangered, while another 40% are not currently threatened. The last 20% has not been evaluated due to lack of data. This is particularly obvious for the South East Asian species that constitutes 44% of the data deficient species. We aim at making a more in debt analysis of the conservation status of all the species as more data becomes available.

It appears that Supersections Decaloba has more critically endangered species than its proportion of the total number of species warrant, while Bryonioides has fewer critically endangered species than what would be expected from its proportion of the species. In the endangered category Supersection Decaloba has again more species than would be expected while Disemma has too few (actually none due to lack of data). Decaloba has likewise more species in the vulnerable category than its proportion of the species merits. If the groups are monophyletic, it seems to indicate that Bryonioides as a group has been successful with favorable adaptations and a capacity to spread and avoid extinction. Decaloba on the other hand seems to have more species that are specialists and with reduced niches and therefore have a higher propensity to go extinct. It is too early to say anything definite about supersection Disemma.