Statistics

Species of Pinaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 11 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 1,523 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Pinaceae. Of these 252 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,513 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Pinaceae. 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 1,523 species names for the family Pinaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	252	16.5%
◕	Synonym	1,210	79.4%
◕	Unplaced	19	1.2%
◕	Unassessed	42	2.8%

All names

The status of the 3,036 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Pinaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	371	12.2%
◕	Synonym	2,571	84.7%
◕	Unplaced	19	0.6%
◕	Unassessed	75	2.5%

Of these names,

• 122 are recorded as invalid
• 125 are recorded as illegitimate
• 10 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 6 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 1,523 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Pinaceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	245	1,136	0	0	1,381	90.7%
	Medium confidence	6	49	0	0	55	3.6%
	Low confidence	1	25	19	42	87	5.7%

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