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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Piperaceae

Piperaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Piperaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Piperaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 13 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 7,123 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Piperaceae. Of these 2,658 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 771 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Piperaceae. 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 7,123 species names for the family Piperaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,658	37.3%
◕	Synonym	2,121	29.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2,344	32.9%

All names

The status of the 7,894 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Piperaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,717	34.4%
◕	Synonym	2,805	35.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2,372	30.0%

Of the species names,

5 are recorded as invalid
31 are recorded as illegitimate
3 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 7,123 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Piperaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	0	0	0	0%
Medium confidence	2,565	1,878	0	4,443	62.4%
Low confidence	93	243	2,344	2,680	37.6%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
Tropicos	2,096	1,047	0	121	0	3,264	45.8%
WCSP (in review)	562	1,074	0	2,223	1	3,859	54.2%