Statistics

Species of Piperaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 13 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 6,933 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Piperaceae. Of these 1,919 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 698 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Piperaceae. 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 6,933 species names for the family Piperaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,919	27.7%
◕	Synonym	2,309	33.3%
◕	Unplaced	6	0.1%
◕	Unassessed	2,699	38.9%

All names

The status of the 7,631 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Piperaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,993	26.1%
◕	Synonym	2,910	38.1%
◕	Unplaced	7	0.1%
◕	Unassessed	2,721	35.7%

Of these names,

• 5 are recorded as invalid
• 15 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

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

The confidence with which the status of the 6,933 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Piperaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	1,820	1,982	0	0	3,802	54.8%
	Low confidence	99	327	6	2,699	3,131	45.2%

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