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- The Plant List
- Gymnosperms
- Pinaceae
- Gymnosperms
Pinaceae
The family Pinaceae is in the major group Gymnosperms (Conifers, cycads and allies).
Statistics are at the bottom of the page.
Genera in Pinaceae
- Abies
- Cathaya
- Cedrus
- Hesperopeuce
- Keteleeria
- Larix
- Nothotsuga
- Picea
- Pinus
- Pseudolarix
- Pseudotsuga
- Strobus
- Tsuga
A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Pinaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .
Statistics
Species of Pinaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 11 plant genera.
The Plant List includes 1,530 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Pinaceae. Of these 255 are accepted species names.
The Plant List includes a further 1,977 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Pinaceae. 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 1,530 species names for the family Pinaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 255 | 16.7% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 1,209 | 79.0% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 0 | 0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 66 | 4.3% |
All names
The status of the 3,507 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Pinaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 365 | 10.4% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 3,071 | 87.6% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 0 | 0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 71 | 2.0% |
Of the species names,
- 123 are recorded as invalid
- 128 are recorded as illegitimate
- 10 are recorded as a spelling variant
A further 6 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.
The confidence with which the status of the 1,530 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Pinaceae, are assigned as follows:
| Confidence level | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
High confidence | 247 | 1,164 | 0 | 0 | 1,411 | 92.2% |
 |
Medium confidence | 8 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 3.0% |
 |
Low confidence | 0 | 7 | 0 | 66 | 73 | 4.8% |
The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Pinaceae is as follows:
| Source of record | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Misapplied | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropicos | 8 | 39 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 84 | 5.5% |
| WCSP | 247 | 1,170 | 0 | 29 | 6 | 1,446 | 94.5% |