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- The Plant List
- Angiosperms
- Fagaceae
- Angiosperms
Fagaceae
The family Fagaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).
Statistics are at the bottom of the page.
Genera in Fagaceae
- Calucechinus
- Castanea
- Castanopsis
- Cerris
- Chrysolepis
- Cyclobalanopsis
- Erythrobalanus
- Fagus
- Lithocarpus
- Notholithocarpus
- Pasania
- Quercus
- Synaedrys
- Trigonobalanus
A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Fagaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .
Statistics
Species of Fagaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 9 plant genera.
The Plant List includes 4,141 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Fagaceae. Of these 1,101 are accepted species names.
The Plant List includes a further 2,360 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Fagaceae. 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 4,141 species names for the family Fagaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 1,101 | 26.6% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 2,824 | 68.2% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 0 | 0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 216 | 5.2% |
All names
The status of the 6,501 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Fagaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 1,151 | 17.7% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 5,129 | 78.9% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 0 | 0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 221 | 3.4% |
Of the species names,
- 267 are recorded as invalid
- 157 are recorded as illegitimate
- 2 are recorded as a spelling variant
A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.
The confidence with which the status of the 4,141 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Fagaceae, are assigned as follows:
| Confidence level | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
High confidence | 1,086 | 2,721 | 0 | 0 | 3,807 | 91.9% |
 |
Medium confidence | 13 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 1.8% |
 |
Low confidence | 2 | 41 | 0 | 216 | 259 | 6.3% |
The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Fagaceae is as follows:
| Source of record | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Misapplied | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropicos | 13 | 61 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 122 | 2.9% |
| WCSP | 1,088 | 2,762 | 0 | 167 | 1 | 4,017 | 97.0% |
| WCSP (in review) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.0% |