The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Buxaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Buxaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Buxaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 5 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 248 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Buxaceae. Of these 122 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 77 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Buxaceae. 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 248 species names for the family Buxaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
◕ Accepted 122 49.2%
◕ Synonym 90 36.3%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 36 14.5%

All names

The status of the 325 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Buxaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
◕ Accepted 132 40.6%
◕ Synonym 153 47.1%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 40 12.3%

Of the species names,

The confidence with which the status of the 248 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Buxaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 3 5 0 0 8 3.2%
Medium confidence 109 66 0 0 175 70.6%
Low confidence 10 19 0 36 65 26.2%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 15 17 0 2 0 34 13.7%
WCSP 3 5 0 0 0 8 3.2%
WCSP (in review) 104 68 0 34 0 206 83.1%