Statistics

Species of Lythraceae contained within The Plant List belong to 31 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 1,791 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Lythraceae. Of these 540 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 399 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Lythraceae. 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 1,791 species names for the family Lythraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	540	30.2%
◕	Synonym	645	36.0%
◕	Unplaced	9	0.5%
◕	Unassessed	597	33.3%

All names

The status of the 2,190 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Lythraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	564	25.8%
◕	Synonym	1,013	46.3%
◕	Unplaced	9	0.4%
◕	Unassessed	604	27.6%

Of these names,

• 18 are recorded as invalid
• 40 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 1,791 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Lythraceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	531	580	0	0	1,111	62.0%
	Low confidence	9	65	9	597	680	38.0%

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