The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Arecaceae

The family Arecaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Arecaceae

A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Arecaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Arecaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 185 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 7,341 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Arecaceae. Of these 2,522 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 950 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Arecaceae. 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 7,341 species names for the family Arecaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
◕ Accepted 2,522 34.4%
◕ Synonym 4,443 60.5%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 376 5.1%

All names

The status of the 8,291 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Arecaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
◕ Accepted 2,625 31.7%
◕ Synonym 5,289 63.8%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 377 4.5%

Of the species names,

The confidence with which the status of the 7,341 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Arecaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 2,509 4,294 0 0 6,803 92.7%
Medium confidence 12 113 0 0 125 1.7%
Low confidence 1 36 0 376 413 5.6%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Arecaceae is as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
IPNI 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0%
TICA 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0%
Tropicos 13 115 0 127 0 255 3.5%
WCSP 2,509 4,328 0 244 0 7,081 96.5%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 3 0 3 0.0%