Statistics

Species of Fagaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 8 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 4,154 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Fagaceae. Of these 1,105 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2,270 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Fagaceae. 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 4,154 species names for the family Fagaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,105	26.6%
◕	Synonym	2,835	68.2%
◕	Unplaced	148	3.6%
◕	Unassessed	66	1.6%

All names

The status of the 6,424 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Fagaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,188	18.5%
◕	Synonym	5,017	78.1%
◕	Unplaced	149	2.3%
◕	Unassessed	70	1.1%

Of these names,

• 265 are recorded as invalid
• 156 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 4,154 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Fagaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	1,091	2,727	0	0	3,818	91.9%
	Medium confidence	12	90	0	0	102	2.5%
	Low confidence	2	18	148	66	234	5.6%

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