Statistics

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

The Plant List includes 1,054 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Cupressaceae. Of these 148 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 566 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Cupressaceae. 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 1,054 species names for the family Cupressaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	148	14.0%
◕	Synonym	838	79.5%
◕	Unplaced	19	1.8%
◕	Unassessed	49	4.6%

All names

The status of the 1,620 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Cupressaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	197	12.2%
◕	Synonym	1,355	83.6%
◕	Unplaced	19	1.2%
◕	Unassessed	49	3.0%

Of these names,

• 46 are recorded as invalid
• 58 are recorded as illegitimate
• 3 are recorded as a spelling variant

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

The confidence with which the status of the 1,054 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Cupressaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	135	718	0	0	853	80.9%
	Medium confidence	3	41	0	0	44	4.2%
	Low confidence	10	79	19	49	157	14.9%

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