Ericaceae

The family Ericaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

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A list of all accepted names in Ericaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Ericaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 145 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 11,901 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Ericaceae. Of these 3,343 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,932 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Ericaceae. 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 11,901 species names for the family Ericaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3,343	28.1%
◕	Synonym	4,685	39.4%
◕	Unplaced	244	2.1%
◕	Unassessed	3,629	30.5%

All names

The status of the 13,833 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Ericaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3,776	27.3%
◕	Synonym	6,083	44.0%
◕	Unplaced	244	1.8%
◕	Unassessed	3,730	27.0%

Of these names,

38 are recorded as invalid
112 are recorded as illegitimate
5 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 11,901 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Ericaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	1	0	0	1	0.0%
Medium confidence	3,192	3,980	0	0	7,172	60.3%
Low confidence	151	704	244	3,629	4,728	39.7%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
Tropicos	1,120	1,675	0	132	0	2,927	24.6%
WCSP	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.0%
WCSP (in review)	2,223	3,009	244	3,497	2	8,975	75.4%