The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Geraniaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Geraniaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Geraniaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 7 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 3,869 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Geraniaceae. Of these 841 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 526 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Geraniaceae. 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 3,869 species names for the family Geraniaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 841 21.7%
Synonym 912 23.6%
Unplaced 2 0.1%
Unassessed 2,114 54.6%

All names

The status of the 4,395 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Geraniaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 875 19.9%
Synonym 1,397 31.8%
Unplaced 2 0.0%
Unassessed 2,121 48.3%

Of the species names,

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 3,869 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Geraniaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 0 0 0 0 0%
Medium confidence 804 739 0 0 1,543 39.9%
Low confidence 37 173 2 2,114 2,326 60.1%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 288 91 0 22 0 401 10.4%
WCSP (in review) 553 821 2 2,092 1 3,468 89.6%