The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Gesneriaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Gesneriaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Gesneriaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 154 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 7,425 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Gesneriaceae. Of these 2,780 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 459 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Gesneriaceae. 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 7,425 species names for the family Gesneriaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 2,780 37.4%
Synonym 2,518 33.9%
Unplaced 367 4.9%
Unassessed 1,760 23.7%

All names

The status of the 7,884 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Gesneriaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 2,854 36.2%
Synonym 2,866 36.4%
Unplaced 370 4.7%
Unassessed 1,794 22.8%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 7,425 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Gesneriaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 4 0 0 4 0.1%
Medium confidence 2,624 1,960 0 0 4,584 61.7%
Low confidence 156 554 367 1,760 2,837 38.2%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
iPlants 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.0%
Tropicos 550 888 0 147 0 1,585 21.3%
WCSP 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.0%
WCSP (in review) 2,230 1,626 367 1,613 0 5,836 78.6%