Boraginaceae

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

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Genera in Boraginaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Boraginaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 145 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 10,276 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Boraginaceae. Of these 2,213 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,348 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Boraginaceae. 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 10,276 species names for the family Boraginaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,213	21.5%
◕	Synonym	3,596	35.0%
◕	Unplaced	150	1.5%
◕	Unassessed	4,317	42.0%

All names

The status of the 11,624 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Boraginaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,436	21.0%
◕	Synonym	4,508	38.8%
◕	Unplaced	150	1.3%
◕	Unassessed	4,530	39.0%

Of these names,

62 are recorded as invalid
101 are recorded as illegitimate
4 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 8 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 10,276 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Boraginaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	6	0	0	6	0.1%
Medium confidence	2,028	3,003	0	0	5,031	49.0%
Low confidence	185	587	150	4,317	5,239	51.0%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
iPlants	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.0%
Tropicos	855	1,290	0	141	0	2,286	22.2%
WCSP	0	5	0	0	0	5	0.0%
WCSP (in review)	1,358	2,300	150	4,176	8	7,992	77.8%