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⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.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.

Ericaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Ericaceae

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

Statistics

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

The Plant List includes 11,901 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Ericaceae. Of these 3,343 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,932 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Ericaceae. 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 11,901 species names for the family Ericaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 3,343 28.1%
Synonym 4,685 39.4%
Unplaced 244 2.1%
Unassessed 3,629 30.5%

All names

The status of the 13,833 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Ericaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 3,776 27.3%
Synonym 6,083 44.0%
Unplaced 244 1.8%
Unassessed 3,730 27.0%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 11,901 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Ericaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 1 0 0 1 0.0%
Medium confidence 3,192 3,980 0 0 7,172 60.3%
Low confidence 151 704 244 3,629 4,728 39.7%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 1,120 1,675 0 132 0 2,927 24.6%
WCSP 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0%
WCSP (in review) 2,223 3,009 244 3,497 2 8,975 75.4%