Statistics

Species of Portulacaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 16 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 1,014 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Portulacaceae. Of these 278 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 161 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Portulacaceae. 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 1,014 species names for the family Portulacaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	278	27.4%
◕	Synonym	446	44.0%
◕	Unplaced	4	0.4%
◕	Unassessed	286	28.2%

All names

The status of the 1,175 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Portulacaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	294	25.0%
◕	Synonym	581	49.4%
◕	Unplaced	4	0.3%
◕	Unassessed	296	25.2%

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 1,014 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Portulacaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	10	5	0	0	15	1.5%
	Medium confidence	261	393	0	0	654	64.5%
	Low confidence	7	48	4	286	345	34.0%

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