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⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.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

Orchidaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Orchidaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Orchidaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 925 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 69,900 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Orchidaceae. Of these 27,135 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 8,427 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Orchidaceae. 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 69,900 species names for the family Orchidaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 27,135 38.8%
Synonym 38,644 55.3%
Unplaced 1,656 2.4%
Unassessed 2,465 3.5%

All names

The status of the 78,327 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Orchidaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 27,950 35.7%
Synonym 46,215 59.0%
Unplaced 1,660 2.1%
Unassessed 2,502 3.2%

Of these names,

A further 14 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 69,900 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Orchidaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 26,198 34,464 0 0 60,662 86.8%
Medium confidence 274 1,778 0 0 2,052 2.9%
Low confidence 663 2,402 1,656 2,465 7,186 10.3%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 294 1,861 0 1,640 0 3,795 5.4%
WCSP 26,841 36,783 1,656 147 14 65,441 93.6%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 678 0 678 1.0%