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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Polygonaceae

Polygonaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Polygonaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Polygonaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 59 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 5,385 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Polygonaceae. Of these 1,384 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,777 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Polygonaceae. 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 5,385 species names for the family Polygonaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,384	25.7%
◕	Synonym	1,880	34.9%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	2,120	39.4%

All names

The status of the 7,162 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Polygonaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,584	22.1%
◕	Synonym	3,371	47.1%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	2,206	30.8%

Of the species names,

31 are recorded as invalid
44 are recorded as illegitimate

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

The confidence with which the status of the 5,385 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Polygonaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	5	0	0	5	0.1%
Medium confidence	1,358	1,755	0	0	3,113	57.8%
Low confidence	26	120	1	2,120	2,267	42.1%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
Tropicos	446	761	0	79	0	1,286	23.9%
WCSP	0	5	0	3	0	8	0.1%
WCSP (in review)	938	1,114	1	2,038	1	4,091	76.0%