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⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.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

Proteaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Proteaceae

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

Statistics

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.

Species 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%

All names

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%