Statistics

Species of Costaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 7 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 308 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Costaceae. Of these 137 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 46 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Costaceae. 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 308 species names for the family Costaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	137	44.5%
◕	Synonym	165	53.6%
◕	Unplaced	2	0.6%
◕	Unassessed	4	1.3%

All names

The status of the 354 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Costaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	147	41.5%
◕	Synonym	201	56.8%
◕	Unplaced	2	0.6%
◕	Unassessed	4	1.1%

Of these names,

• 6 are recorded as invalid
• 5 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 308 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Costaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	137	156	0	0	293	95.1%
	Medium confidence	0	9	0	0	9	2.9%
	Low confidence	0	0	2	4	6	1.9%

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