The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

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

Orobanchaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Orobanchaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Orobanchaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 80 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 5,409 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Orobanchaceae. Of these 1,570 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,013 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Orobanchaceae. 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 5,409 species names for the family Orobanchaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 1,570 29.0%
Synonym 1,513 28.0%
Unplaced 221 4.1%
Unassessed 2,105 38.9%

All names

The status of the 6,422 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Orobanchaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 1,774 27.6%
Synonym 2,262 35.2%
Unplaced 223 3.5%
Unassessed 2,163 33.7%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 5,409 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Orobanchaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 11 9 0 0 20 0.4%
Medium confidence 1,509 1,344 0 0 2,853 52.7%
Low confidence 50 160 221 2,105 2,536 46.9%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
iPlants 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0%
Tropicos 603 459 0 60 0 1,122 20.7%
WCSP 11 8 0 1 0 20 0.4%
WCSP (in review) 956 1,045 221 2,044 0 4,266 78.9%