Statistics

Species of Ebenaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 3 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 1,709 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Ebenaceae. Of these 768 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 241 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Ebenaceae. 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 1,709 species names for the family Ebenaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	768	44.9%
◕	Synonym	882	51.6%
◕	Unplaced	21	1.2%
◕	Unassessed	38	2.2%

All names

The status of the 1,950 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Ebenaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	797	40.9%
◕	Synonym	1,094	56.1%
◕	Unplaced	21	1.1%
◕	Unassessed	38	1.9%

Of these names,

• 24 are recorded as invalid
• 59 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 2 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 1,709 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Ebenaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	756	826	0	0	1,582	92.6%
	Medium confidence	3	28	0	0	31	1.8%
	Low confidence	9	28	21	38	96	5.6%

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