The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1.1 of The Plant List has been superseded and should no longer be used.

The new version is available at http://www.worldfloraonline.org. The new version is enhanced, using more data sources including Taxonomic Expert Networks and will be more frequently updated.

Pinaceae

The family Pinaceae is in the major group Gymnosperms (Conifers, cycads and allies).

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Pinaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Pinaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 11 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 1,530 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Pinaceae. Of these 255 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,977 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Pinaceae. 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 1,530 species names for the family Pinaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 255 16.7%
Synonym 1,209 79.0%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 66 4.3%

All names

The status of the 3,507 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Pinaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 365 10.4%
Synonym 3,071 87.6%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 71 2.0%

Of the species names,

A further 6 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 1,530 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Pinaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 247 1,164 0 0 1,411 92.2%
Medium confidence 8 38 0 0 46 3.0%
Low confidence 0 7 0 66 73 4.8%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 8 39 0 37 0 84 5.5%
WCSP 247 1,170 0 29 6 1,446 94.5%