Statistics

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

The Plant List includes 703 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Linaceae. Of these 167 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 128 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Linaceae. 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 703 species names for the family Linaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	167	23.8%
◕	Synonym	211	30.0%
◕	Unplaced	6	0.9%
◕	Unassessed	319	45.4%

All names

The status of the 831 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Linaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	190	22.9%
◕	Synonym	299	36.0%
◕	Unplaced	6	0.7%
◕	Unassessed	336	40.4%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 3 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 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 703 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Linaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	160	186	0	0	346	49.2%
	Low confidence	7	25	6	319	357	50.8%

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