Acanthaceae

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

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Genera in Acanthaceae

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A list of all accepted names in Acanthaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Acanthaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 225 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 12,411 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Acanthaceae. Of these 2,894 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 591 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Acanthaceae. 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 12,411 species names for the family Acanthaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,894	23.3%
◕	Synonym	3,449	27.8%
◕	Unplaced	316	2.5%
◕	Unassessed	5,752	46.3%

All names

The status of the 13,002 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Acanthaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,955	22.7%
◕	Synonym	3,919	30.1%
◕	Unplaced	316	2.4%
◕	Unassessed	5,812	44.7%

Of these names,

50 are recorded as invalid
65 are recorded as illegitimate
5 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 12,411 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Acanthaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	8	35	0	0	43	0.3%
Medium confidence	2,670	2,360	0	0	5,030	40.5%
Low confidence	216	1,054	316	5,752	7,338	59.1%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the family Acanthaceae, are as follows:

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
Tropicos	970	1,157	0	244	2,371	19.1%
WCSP	8	36	1	1	46	0.4%
WCSP (in review)	1,916	2,256	315	5,507	9,994	80.5%