Statistics

Species of Melanthiaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 17 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 662 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Melanthiaceae. Of these 186 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 354 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Melanthiaceae. 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 662 species names for the family Melanthiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	186	28.1%
◕	Synonym	457	69.0%
◕	Unplaced	9	1.4%
◕	Unassessed	10	1.5%

All names

The status of the 1,016 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Melanthiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	222	21.9%
◕	Synonym	775	76.3%
◕	Unplaced	9	0.9%
◕	Unassessed	10	1.0%

Of these names,

• 10 are recorded as invalid
• 27 are recorded as illegitimate

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 662 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Melanthiaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	184	429	0	0	613	92.6%
	Medium confidence	1	10	0	0	11	1.7%
	Low confidence	1	18	9	10	38	5.7%

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