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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Lauraceae

Lauraceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Lauraceae

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

Statistics

Species of Lauraceae contained within The Plant List belong to 68 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 7,537 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Lauraceae. Of these 2,978 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 568 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Lauraceae. 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 7,537 species names for the family Lauraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,978	39.5%
◕	Synonym	2,512	33.3%
◕	Unplaced	12	0.2%
◕	Unassessed	2,035	27.0%

All names

The status of the 8,105 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Lauraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3,027	37.3%
◕	Synonym	3,004	37.1%
◕	Unplaced	17	0.2%
◕	Unassessed	2,057	25.4%

Of the species names,

31 are recorded as invalid
91 are recorded as illegitimate
2 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 7,537 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Lauraceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	10	0	0	10	0.1%
Medium confidence	2,898	2,285	0	0	5,183	68.8%
Low confidence	80	217	12	2,035	2,344	31.1%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
IPNI	0	0	1	0	1	0.0%
RJP	0	0	0	1	1	0.0%
Tropicos	1,067	1,072	0	118	2,257	29.9%
WCSP	0	11	0	3	14	0.2%
WCSP (in review)	1,911	1,429	11	1,913	5,264	69.8%