Statistics

Species of Polygalaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 23 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 2,793 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Polygalaceae. Of these 729 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 240 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Polygalaceae. 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 2,793 species names for the family Polygalaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	729	26.1%
◕	Synonym	624	22.3%
◕	Unplaced	4	0.1%
◕	Unassessed	1,436	51.4%

All names

The status of the 3,033 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Polygalaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	779	25.7%
◕	Synonym	795	26.2%
◕	Unplaced	4	0.1%
◕	Unassessed	1,455	48.0%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 2,793 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Polygalaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	1	0	0	1	0.0%
	Medium confidence	713	557	0	0	1,270	45.5%
	Low confidence	16	66	4	1,436	1,522	54.5%

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