The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Lythraceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Lythraceae

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

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,

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:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 80 195 0 27 0 302 16.9%
WCSP (in review) 460 450 9 570 0 1,489 83.1%