The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Balanophoraceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Balanophoraceae

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

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,

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:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 12 32 0 1 0 45 19.3%
WCSP 0 4 0 0 0 4 1.7%
WCSP (in review) 29 136 3 16 0 184 79.0%