The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Amaranthaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Amaranthaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Amaranthaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 163 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 7,717 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Amaranthaceae. Of these 1,825 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,890 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Amaranthaceae. 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 7,717 species names for the family Amaranthaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 1,825 23.6%
Synonym 3,320 43.0%
Unplaced 320 4.1%
Unassessed 2,252 29.2%

All names

The status of the 9,607 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Amaranthaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 2,003 20.8%
Synonym 4,975 51.8%
Unplaced 322 3.4%
Unassessed 2,307 24.0%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 7,717 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Amaranthaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 2 0 0 2 0.0%
Medium confidence 1,680 2,878 0 0 4,558 59.1%
Low confidence 145 440 320 2,252 3,157 40.9%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 416 942 0 107 0 1,465 19.0%
WCSP 0 2 1 0 0 3 0.0%
WCSP (in review) 1,409 2,376 319 2,145 1 6,250 81.0%