Myrtaceae

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

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Genera in Myrtaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Myrtaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 144 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 13,815 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Myrtaceae. Of these 5,774 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2,547 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 13,815 species names for the family Myrtaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5,774	41.8%
◕	Synonym	7,378	53.4%
◕	Unplaced	344	2.5%
◕	Unassessed	319	2.3%

All names

The status of the 16,362 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Myrtaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6,057	37.0%
◕	Synonym	9,638	58.9%
◕	Unplaced	347	2.1%
◕	Unassessed	320	2.0%

Of these names,

155 are recorded as invalid
519 are recorded as illegitimate
12 are recorded as a spelling variant

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

The confidence with which the status of the 13,815 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Myrtaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	5,744	6,948	0	0	12,692	91.9%
Medium confidence	15	204	0	0	219	1.6%
Low confidence	15	226	344	319	904	6.5%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
iPlants	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.0%
Tropicos	15	219	0	221	0	455	3.3%
WCSP	5,759	7,152	344	30	2	13,287	96.2%
WCSP (in review)	0	6	0	68	0	74	0.5%