Statistics

Species of The Plant List contained within The Plant List belong to 642 plant families and 17,020 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 1,064,035 scientific plant names of species rank for the The Plant List. Of these 350,699 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 229,650 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the The Plant List. 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 1,064,035 species names for the The Plant List recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	350,699	33.0%
◕	Synonym	470,624	44.2%
◕	Unplaced	243	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	242,469	22.8%

All names

The status of the 1,293,685 names (including infraspecific names) for the The Plant List recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	373,945	28.9%
◕	Synonym	670,990	51.9%
◕	Unplaced	249	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	248,501	19.2%

Of the species names,

• 11,339 are recorded as invalid
• 22,944 are recorded as illegitimate
• 2,041 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 1,320 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 1,064,035 species names recorded in The Plant List for the The Plant List, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	149,349	229,242	0	0	378,591	35.6%
	Medium confidence	193,013	214,107	0	0	407,120	38.3%
	Low confidence	8,337	27,275	243	242,469	278,324	26.2%

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