Statistics

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

The Plant List includes 1,536 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Marantaceae. Of these 539 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 65 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Marantaceae. 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 1,536 species names for the family Marantaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	539	35.1%
◕	Synonym	901	58.7%
◕	Unplaced	26	1.7%
◕	Unassessed	70	4.6%

All names

The status of the 1,601 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Marantaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	545	34.0%
◕	Synonym	960	60.0%
◕	Unplaced	26	1.6%
◕	Unassessed	70	4.4%

Of these names,

• 17 are recorded as invalid
• 39 are recorded as illegitimate
• 3 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 1,536 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Marantaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	522	854	0	0	1,376	89.6%
	Medium confidence	2	31	0	0	33	2.1%
	Low confidence	15	16	26	70	127	8.3%

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