Statistics

Species of Alismataceae contained within The Plant List belong to 17 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 497 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Alismataceae. Of these 111 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 353 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Alismataceae. 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 497 species names for the family Alismataceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	111	22.3%
◕	Synonym	359	72.2%
◕	Unplaced	11	2.2%
◕	Unassessed	16	3.2%

All names

The status of the 850 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Alismataceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	131	15.4%
◕	Synonym	692	81.4%
◕	Unplaced	11	1.3%
◕	Unassessed	16	1.9%

Of these names,

• 18 are recorded as invalid
• 25 are recorded as illegitimate
• 3 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 2 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 497 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Alismataceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	111	346	0	0	457	92.0%
	Medium confidence	0	13	0	0	13	2.6%
	Low confidence	0	0	11	16	27	5.4%

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