The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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

Begoniaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Begoniaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Begoniaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 2 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 2,675 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Begoniaceae. Of these 1,529 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 372 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Begoniaceae. 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 2,675 species names for the family Begoniaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 1,529 57.2%
Synonym 967 36.1%
Unplaced 90 3.4%
Unassessed 89 3.3%

All names

The status of the 3,047 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Begoniaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 1,561 51.2%
Synonym 1,307 42.9%
Unplaced 90 3.0%
Unassessed 89 2.9%

Of these names,

A further 5 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 2,675 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Begoniaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 1,521 926 0 0 2,447 91.5%
Medium confidence 6 25 0 0 31 1.2%
Low confidence 2 16 90 89 197 7.4%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 6 26 0 89 0 121 4.5%
WCSP 1,523 941 90 0 5 2,559 95.7%