The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Myrtaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Myrtaceae

A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Myrtaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

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

The Plant List includes 13,990 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Myrtaceae. Of these 5,970 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2,755 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Myrtaceae. 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 13,990 species names for the family Myrtaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 5,970 42.7%
Synonym 7,475 53.4%
Unplaced 1 0.0%
Unassessed 544 3.9%

All names

The status of the 16,745 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Myrtaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 6,141 36.7%
Synonym 10,054 60.0%
Unplaced 1 0.0%
Unassessed 549 3.3%

Of the species names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 13,990 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Myrtaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 5,875 7,216 0 0 13,091 93.6%
Medium confidence 90 163 0 0 253 1.8%
Low confidence 5 96 1 544 646 4.6%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Myrtaceae is as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
iPlants 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0%
Tropicos 90 171 0 194 0 455 3.3%
WCSP 5,880 7,296 0 338 2 13,514 96.6%
WCSP (in review) 0 7 1 12 0 20 0.1%