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⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.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

Linaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Linaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Linaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 16 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 703 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Linaceae. Of these 167 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 128 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Linaceae. 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 703 species names for the family Linaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 167 23.8%
Synonym 211 30.0%
Unplaced 6 0.9%
Unassessed 319 45.4%

All names

The status of the 831 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Linaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 190 22.9%
Synonym 299 36.0%
Unplaced 6 0.7%
Unassessed 336 40.4%

Of these names,

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 703 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Linaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 160 186 0 0 346 49.2%
Low confidence 7 25 6 319 357 50.8%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 78 95 0 7 0 180 25.6%
WCSP (in review) 89 116 6 312 1 524 74.5%