The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Myricaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Myricaceae

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

Statistics

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

The Plant List includes 216 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Myricaceae. Of these 53 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 51 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Myricaceae. 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 216 species names for the family Myricaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
◕ Accepted 53 24.5%
◕ Synonym 70 32.4%
◕ Unplaced 1 0.5%
◕ Unassessed 92 42.6%

All names

The status of the 267 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Myricaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
◕ Accepted 57 21.3%
◕ Synonym 116 43.4%
◕ Unplaced 1 0.4%
◕ Unassessed 93 34.8%

Of the species names,

The confidence with which the status of the 216 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Myricaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 1 0 0 1 0.5%
Medium confidence 52 67 0 0 119 55.1%
Low confidence 1 2 1 92 96 44.4%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
RJP 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.5%
Tropicos 39 41 1 4 0 85 39.4%
WCSP 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.5%
WCSP (in review) 14 28 0 87 0 129 59.7%