Arecaceae

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

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Genera in Arecaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Arecaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 187 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 7,321 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Arecaceae. Of these 2,466 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 814 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Arecaceae. 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 7,321 species names for the family Arecaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,466	33.7%
◕	Synonym	4,439	60.6%
◕	Unplaced	249	3.4%
◕	Unassessed	167	2.3%

All names

The status of the 8,135 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Arecaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,591	31.9%
◕	Synonym	5,126	63.0%
◕	Unplaced	250	3.1%
◕	Unassessed	168	2.1%

Of these names,

126 are recorded as invalid
85 are recorded as illegitimate
13 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 7,321 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Arecaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	2,446	4,207	0	0	6,653	90.9%
Medium confidence	15	184	0	0	199	2.7%
Low confidence	5	48	249	167	469	6.4%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
Tropicos	18	193	0	152	363	5.0%
WCSP	2,448	4,246	249	1	6,944	94.9%
WCSP (in review)	0	0	0	14	14	0.2%