The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Polygonaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Polygonaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Polygonaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 56 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 5,109 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Polygonaceae. Of these 1,266 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,675 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Polygonaceae. 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 5,109 species names for the family Polygonaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 1,266 24.8%
◕ Synonym 1,945 38.1%
◕ Unplaced 48 0.9%
◕ Unassessed 1,850 36.2%

All names

The status of the 6,784 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Polygonaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
◕ Accepted 1,482 21.8%
◕ Synonym 3,306 48.7%
◕ Unplaced 48 0.7%
◕ Unassessed 1,948 28.7%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 5,109 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Polygonaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 5 0 0 5 0.1%
Medium confidence 1,239 1,797 0 0 3,036 59.4%
Low confidence 27 143 48 1,850 2,068 40.5%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 362 922 0 60 0 1,344 26.3%
WCSP 0 5 0 3 0 8 0.2%
WCSP (in review) 904 1,018 48 1,787 1 3,758 73.6%