Statistics

Species of Begoniaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 2 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 2,675 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Begoniaceae. Of these 1,529 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 372 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Begoniaceae. 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 2,675 species names for the family Begoniaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,529	57.2%
◕	Synonym	967	36.1%
◕	Unplaced	90	3.4%
◕	Unassessed	89	3.3%

All names

The status of the 3,047 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Begoniaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,561	51.2%
◕	Synonym	1,307	42.9%
◕	Unplaced	90	3.0%
◕	Unassessed	89	2.9%

Of these names,

• 59 are recorded as invalid
• 106 are recorded as illegitimate
• 4 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 5 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 2,675 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Begoniaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	1,521	926	0	0	2,447	91.5%
	Medium confidence	6	25	0	0	31	1.2%
	Low confidence	2	16	90	89	197	7.4%

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