The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Boraginaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Boraginaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Boraginaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 145 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 10,276 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Boraginaceae. Of these 2,213 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,348 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Boraginaceae. 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 10,276 species names for the family Boraginaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 2,213 21.5%
Synonym 3,596 35.0%
Unplaced 150 1.5%
Unassessed 4,317 42.0%

All names

The status of the 11,624 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Boraginaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 2,436 21.0%
Synonym 4,508 38.8%
Unplaced 150 1.3%
Unassessed 4,530 39.0%

Of these names,

A further 8 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 10,276 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Boraginaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 6 0 0 6 0.1%
Medium confidence 2,028 3,003 0 0 5,031 49.0%
Low confidence 185 587 150 4,317 5,239 51.0%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
iPlants 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0%
Tropicos 855 1,290 0 141 0 2,286 22.2%
WCSP 0 5 0 0 0 5 0.0%
WCSP (in review) 1,358 2,300 150 4,176 8 7,992 77.8%