Statistics

Species of Balanophoraceae contained within The Plant List belong to 14 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 233 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Balanophoraceae. Of these 41 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 30 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Balanophoraceae. 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 233 species names for the family Balanophoraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	41	17.6%
◕	Synonym	172	73.8%
◕	Unplaced	3	1.3%
◕	Unassessed	17	7.3%

All names

The status of the 263 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Balanophoraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	47	17.9%
◕	Synonym	195	74.1%
◕	Unplaced	3	1.1%
◕	Unassessed	18	6.8%

Of these names,

• 2 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 233 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Balanophoraceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	4	0	0	4	1.7%
	Medium confidence	37	150	0	0	187	80.3%
	Low confidence	4	18	3	17	42	18.0%

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