Statistics

Species of Buxaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 5 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 247 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Buxaceae. Of these 118 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 77 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Buxaceae. 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 247 species names for the family Buxaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	118	47.8%
◕	Synonym	94	38.1%
◕	Unplaced	2	0.8%
◕	Unassessed	33	13.4%

All names

The status of the 324 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Buxaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	129	39.8%
◕	Synonym	158	48.8%
◕	Unplaced	2	0.6%
◕	Unassessed	35	10.8%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 4 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 247 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Buxaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	3	5	0	0	8	3.2%
	Medium confidence	105	69	0	0	174	70.4%
	Low confidence	10	20	2	33	65	26.3%

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