Statistics

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

The Plant List includes 242 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Clethraceae. Of these 83 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 52 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Clethraceae. 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 242 species names for the family Clethraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	83	34.3%
◕	Synonym	136	56.2%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	23	9.5%

All names

The status of the 294 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Clethraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	89	30.3%
◕	Synonym	182	61.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	23	7.8%

Of these names,

• 7 are recorded as invalid
• 9 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 242 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Clethraceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	79	120	0	0	199	82.2%
	Medium confidence	4	14	0	0	18	7.4%
	Low confidence	0	2	0	23	25	10.3%

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