Statistics

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

The Plant List includes 694 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Potamogetonaceae. Of these 166 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 400 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Potamogetonaceae. 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 694 species names for the family Potamogetonaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	166	23.9%
◕	Synonym	423	61.0%
◕	Unplaced	101	14.6%
◕	Unassessed	4	0.6%

All names

The status of the 1,094 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Potamogetonaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	177	16.2%
◕	Synonym	812	74.2%
◕	Unplaced	101	9.2%
◕	Unassessed	4	0.4%

Of these names,

• 12 are recorded as invalid
• 44 are recorded as illegitimate

A further 2 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 694 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Potamogetonaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	162	414	0	0	576	83.0%
	Medium confidence	4	9	0	0	13	1.9%
	Low confidence	0	0	101	4	105	15.1%

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