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⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.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

Primulaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Primulaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Primulaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 69 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 7,859 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Primulaceae. Of these 2,580 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,119 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Primulaceae. 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 7,859 species names for the family Primulaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 2,580 32.8%
Synonym 3,152 40.1%
Unplaced 71 0.9%
Unassessed 2,056 26.2%

All names

The status of the 8,978 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Primulaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 2,784 31.0%
Synonym 4,040 45.0%
Unplaced 72 0.8%
Unassessed 2,082 23.2%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 7,859 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Primulaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 8 0 0 8 0.1%
Medium confidence 2,490 2,834 0 0 5,324 67.7%
Low confidence 90 310 71 2,056 2,527 32.2%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 865 1,499 0 75 0 2,439 31.0%
WCSP 0 10 0 0 0 10 0.1%
WCSP (in review) 1,715 1,643 71 1,981 1 5,411 68.9%