Amaranthaceae

The family Amaranthaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

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Genera in Amaranthaceae

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A list of all accepted names in Amaranthaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Amaranthaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 163 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 7,717 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Amaranthaceae. Of these 1,825 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,890 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Amaranthaceae. 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 7,717 species names for the family Amaranthaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,825	23.6%
◕	Synonym	3,320	43.0%
◕	Unplaced	320	4.1%
◕	Unassessed	2,252	29.2%

All names

The status of the 9,607 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Amaranthaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,003	20.8%
◕	Synonym	4,975	51.8%
◕	Unplaced	322	3.4%
◕	Unassessed	2,307	24.0%

Of these names,

64 are recorded as invalid
155 are recorded as illegitimate
3 are recorded as a spelling variant

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

The confidence with which the status of the 7,717 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Amaranthaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	2	0	0	2	0.0%
Medium confidence	1,680	2,878	0	0	4,558	59.1%
Low confidence	145	440	320	2,252	3,157	40.9%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
Tropicos	416	942	0	107	0	1,465	19.0%
WCSP	0	2	1	0	0	3	0.0%
WCSP (in review)	1,409	2,376	319	2,145	1	6,250	81.0%