Statistics

Species of Hydrangeaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 15 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 658 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Hydrangeaceae. Of these 204 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 303 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Hydrangeaceae. 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 658 species names for the family Hydrangeaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	204	31.0%
◕	Synonym	258	39.2%
◕	Unplaced	5	0.8%
◕	Unassessed	191	29.0%

All names

The status of the 961 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Hydrangeaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	254	26.4%
◕	Synonym	493	51.3%
◕	Unplaced	5	0.5%
◕	Unassessed	209	21.7%

Of these names,

• 4 are recorded as invalid
• 3 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 658 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Hydrangeaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	1	0	0	1	0.2%
	Medium confidence	202	252	0	0	454	69.0%
	Low confidence	2	5	5	191	203	30.9%

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