The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Potamogetonaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Potamogetonaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Potamogetonaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 6 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 694 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Potamogetonaceae. Of these 166 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 400 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Potamogetonaceae. 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 694 species names for the family Potamogetonaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 166 23.9%
Synonym 423 61.0%
Unplaced 101 14.6%
Unassessed 4 0.6%

All names

The status of the 1,094 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Potamogetonaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 177 16.2%
Synonym 812 74.2%
Unplaced 101 9.2%
Unassessed 4 0.4%

Of these names,

A further 2 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 694 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Potamogetonaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 162 414 0 0 576 83.0%
Medium confidence 4 9 0 0 13 1.9%
Low confidence 0 0 101 4 105 15.1%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 4 9 0 4 0 17 2.4%
WCSP 162 414 101 0 2 679 97.8%