Statistics

Species of Eriocaulaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 11 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 2,242 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Eriocaulaceae. Of these 1,224 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 520 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Eriocaulaceae. 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 2,242 species names for the family Eriocaulaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,224	54.6%
◕	Synonym	996	44.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	22	1.0%

All names

The status of the 2,762 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Eriocaulaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,305	47.2%
◕	Synonym	1,435	52.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	22	0.8%

Of these names,

• 20 are recorded as invalid
• 52 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 2,242 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Eriocaulaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	1,224	981	0	0	2,205	98.3%
	Medium confidence	0	15	0	0	15	0.7%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	22	22	1.0%

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