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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Gesneriaceae

Gesneriaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Gesneriaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Gesneriaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 164 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 7,906 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Gesneriaceae. Of these 3,122 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 570 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Gesneriaceae. 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 7,906 species names for the family Gesneriaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3,122	39.5%
◕	Synonym	2,924	37.0%
◕	Unplaced	16	0.2%
◕	Unassessed	1,844	23.3%

All names

The status of the 8,476 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Gesneriaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3,205	37.8%
◕	Synonym	3,378	39.9%
◕	Unplaced	16	0.2%
◕	Unassessed	1,877	22.1%

Of the species names,

36 are recorded as invalid
104 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 7,906 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Gesneriaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	3	0	0	3	0.0%
Medium confidence	2,968	2,513	0	0	5,481	69.3%
Low confidence	154	408	16	1,844	2,422	30.6%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
iPlants	0	2	0	2	0	4	0.1%
IPNI	0	0	5	0	0	5	0.1%
Tropicos	737	781	0	119	0	1,637	20.7%
WCSP	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.0%
WCSP (in review)	2,385	2,140	11	1,723	1	6,259	79.2%