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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Orchidaceae

Orchidaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Orchidaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Orchidaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 899 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 71,391 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Orchidaceae. Of these 27,801 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 9,455 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Orchidaceae. 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 71,391 species names for the family Orchidaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	27,801	38.9%
◕	Synonym	39,992	56.0%
◕	Unplaced	3	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	3,595	5.0%

All names

The status of the 80,846 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Orchidaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	28,349	35.1%
◕	Synonym	48,836	60.4%
◕	Unplaced	3	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	3,658	4.5%

Of the species names,

425 are recorded as invalid
1,566 are recorded as illegitimate
51 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 21 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 71,391 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Orchidaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	27,541	37,934	0	0	65,475	91.7%
Medium confidence	245	1,633	0	0	1,878	2.6%
Low confidence	15	425	3	3,595	4,038	5.7%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
IPNI	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.0%
TICA	1	0	0	112	0	113	0.2%
Tropicos	253	1,657	1	1,454	0	3,365	4.7%
WCSP	27,547	38,335	0	2,012	21	67,894	95.1%
WCSP (in review)	0	0	2	16	0	18	0.0%