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⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.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

Lauraceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Lauraceae

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

Statistics

Species of Lauraceae contained within The Plant List belong to 67 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 7,430 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Lauraceae. Of these 2,747 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 525 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Lauraceae. 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 7,430 species names for the family Lauraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 2,747 37.0%
Synonym 2,498 33.6%
Unplaced 122 1.6%
Unassessed 2,063 27.8%

All names

The status of the 7,955 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Lauraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 2,830 35.6%
Synonym 2,925 36.8%
Unplaced 123 1.5%
Unassessed 2,077 26.1%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 7,430 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Lauraceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 9 0 0 9 0.1%
Medium confidence 2,673 2,279 0 0 4,952 66.6%
Low confidence 74 210 122 2,063 2,469 33.2%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 914 1,347 0 129 0 2,390 32.2%
WCSP 0 9 0 0 0 9 0.1%
WCSP (in review) 1,833 1,142 122 1,934 0 5,031 67.7%