Lauraceae

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

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Genera in Lauraceae

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

Statistics

Species of Lauraceae contained within The Plant List belong to 67 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 7,430 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Lauraceae. Of these 2,747 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 525 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Lauraceae. 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 7,430 species names for the family Lauraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,747	37.0%
◕	Synonym	2,498	33.6%
◕	Unplaced	122	1.6%
◕	Unassessed	2,063	27.8%

All names

The status of the 7,955 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Lauraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,830	35.6%
◕	Synonym	2,925	36.8%
◕	Unplaced	123	1.5%
◕	Unassessed	2,077	26.1%

Of these names,

23 are recorded as invalid
74 are recorded as illegitimate
1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 7,430 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Lauraceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	9	0	0	9	0.1%
Medium confidence	2,673	2,279	0	0	4,952	66.6%
Low confidence	74	210	122	2,063	2,469	33.2%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
Tropicos	914	1,347	0	129	2,390	32.2%
WCSP	0	9	0	0	9	0.1%
WCSP (in review)	1,833	1,142	122	1,934	5,031	67.7%