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The family Proteaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).
Statistics are at the bottom of the page.
A list of all accepted names in Proteaceae is available in CSV format.
Species of Proteaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 62 plant genera.
The Plant List includes 4,137 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Proteaceae. Of these 965 are accepted species names.
The Plant List includes a further 520 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Proteaceae. 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.
The status of the 4,137 species names for the family Proteaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
Status | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
◕ | Accepted | 965 | 23.3% |
◕ | Synonym | 878 | 21.2% |
◕ | Unplaced | 19 | 0.5% |
◕ | Unassessed | 2,275 | 55.0% |
The status of the 4,657 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Proteaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
Status | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|
◕ | Accepted | 1,070 | 23.0% |
◕ | Synonym | 1,270 | 27.3% |
◕ | Unplaced | 19 | 0.4% |
◕ | Unassessed | 2,298 | 49.3% |
Of these names,
The confidence with which the status of the 4,137 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Proteaceae, are assigned as follows:
Confidence level | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
High confidence | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | |
Medium confidence | 940 | 764 | 0 | 0 | 1,704 | 41.2% | |
Low confidence | 25 | 113 | 19 | 2,275 | 2,432 | 58.8% |
The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the family Proteaceae, are as follows:
Source of record | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Misapplied | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tropicos | 182 | 290 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 496 | 12.0% |
WCSP | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0% |
WCSP (in review) | 783 | 587 | 19 | 2,251 | 0 | 3,640 | 88.0% |