Statistics

Species of Hydrocharitaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 16 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 616 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Hydrocharitaceae. Of these 148 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 168 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Hydrocharitaceae. 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 616 species names for the family Hydrocharitaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	148	24.0%
◕	Synonym	455	73.9%
◕	Unplaced	4	0.6%
◕	Unassessed	9	1.5%

All names

The status of the 784 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Hydrocharitaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	175	22.3%
◕	Synonym	596	76.0%
◕	Unplaced	4	0.5%
◕	Unassessed	9	1.1%

Of these names,

• 12 are recorded as invalid
• 25 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 616 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Hydrocharitaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	127	400	0	0	527	85.6%
	Medium confidence	21	54	0	0	75	12.2%
	Low confidence	0	1	4	9	14	2.3%

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