Orchidaceae

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

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Genera in Orchidaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Orchidaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 925 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 69,900 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Orchidaceae. Of these 27,135 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 8,427 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Orchidaceae. 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 69,900 species names for the family Orchidaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	27,135	38.8%
◕	Synonym	38,644	55.3%
◕	Unplaced	1,656	2.4%
◕	Unassessed	2,465	3.5%

All names

The status of the 78,327 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Orchidaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	27,950	35.7%
◕	Synonym	46,215	59.0%
◕	Unplaced	1,660	2.1%
◕	Unassessed	2,502	3.2%

Of these names,

363 are recorded as invalid
1,470 are recorded as illegitimate
49 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 14 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 69,900 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Orchidaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	26,198	34,464	0	0	60,662	86.8%
Medium confidence	274	1,778	0	0	2,052	2.9%
Low confidence	663	2,402	1,656	2,465	7,186	10.3%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
Tropicos	294	1,861	0	1,640	0	3,795	5.4%
WCSP	26,841	36,783	1,656	147	14	65,441	93.6%
WCSP (in review)	0	0	0	678	0	678	1.0%