The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Lythraceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Lythraceae

A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Lythraceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Lythraceae contained within The Plant List belong to 31 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 1,823 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Lythraceae. Of these 604 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 434 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Lythraceae. 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 1,823 species names for the family Lythraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 604 33.1%
Synonym 685 37.6%
Unplaced 1 0.1%
Unassessed 533 29.2%

All names

The status of the 2,257 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Lythraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 624 27.6%
Synonym 1,096 48.6%
Unplaced 1 0.0%
Unassessed 536 23.7%

Of the species names,

The confidence with which the status of the 1,823 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Lythraceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 597 624 0 0 1,221 67.0%
Low confidence 7 61 1 533 602 33.0%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Lythraceae is as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 119 158 1 27 0 305 16.7%
WCSP 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1%
WCSP (in review) 485 527 0 505 0 1,517 83.2%