Statistics

Species of Pontederiaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 6 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 211 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Pontederiaceae. Of these 33 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 48 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Pontederiaceae. 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 211 species names for the family Pontederiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	33	15.6%
◕	Synonym	172	81.5%
◕	Unplaced	3	1.4%
◕	Unassessed	3	1.4%

All names

The status of the 259 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Pontederiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	35	13.5%
◕	Synonym	218	84.2%
◕	Unplaced	3	1.2%
◕	Unassessed	3	1.2%

Of these names,

• 9 are recorded as invalid
• 9 are recorded as illegitimate
• 4 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 211 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Pontederiaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	33	160	0	0	193	91.5%
	Medium confidence	0	11	0	0	11	5.2%
	Low confidence	0	1	3	3	7	3.3%

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