Gentianaceae

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

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Genera in Gentianaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Gentianaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 87 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 5,878 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Gentianaceae. Of these 1,500 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,122 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Gentianaceae. 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 5,878 species names for the family Gentianaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,500	25.5%
◕	Synonym	2,920	49.7%
◕	Unplaced	129	2.2%
◕	Unassessed	1,329	22.6%

All names

The status of the 7,000 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Gentianaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,717	24.5%
◕	Synonym	3,777	54.0%
◕	Unplaced	130	1.9%
◕	Unassessed	1,376	19.7%

Of these names,

33 are recorded as invalid
111 are recorded as illegitimate
1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 5,878 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Gentianaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	15	0	0	15	0.3%
Medium confidence	1,405	2,674	0	0	4,079	69.4%
Low confidence	95	231	129	1,329	1,784	30.4%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
Tropicos	356	630	0	79	1,065	18.1%
WCSP	0	15	0	0	15	0.3%
WCSP (in review)	1,144	2,275	129	1,250	4,798	81.6%