Statistics

Species of Commelinaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 41 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 2,168 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Commelinaceae. Of these 723 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 370 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Commelinaceae. 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 2,168 species names for the family Commelinaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	723	33.3%
◕	Synonym	1,372	63.3%
◕	Unplaced	45	2.1%
◕	Unassessed	28	1.3%

All names

The status of the 2,538 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Commelinaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	787	31.0%
◕	Synonym	1,678	66.1%
◕	Unplaced	45	1.8%
◕	Unassessed	28	1.1%

Of these names,

• 55 are recorded as invalid
• 82 are recorded as illegitimate
• 2 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 2,168 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Commelinaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	722	1,325	0	0	2,047	94.4%
	Medium confidence	1	44	0	0	45	2.1%
	Low confidence	0	3	45	28	76	3.5%

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