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- The Plant List
- Angiosperms
- Begoniaceae
- Angiosperms
Begoniaceae
The family Begoniaceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).
Statistics are at the bottom of the page.
Genera in Begoniaceae
- Begonia
- Begoniella
- Casparya
- Diploclinium
- Hillebrandia
- Moschkowitzia
- Pilderia
- Reichenheimia
- Scheidweileria
- Semibegoniella
- Tittelbachia
- Wageneria
A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Begoniaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .
Statistics
Species of Begoniaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 2 plant genera.
The Plant List includes 2,787 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Begoniaceae. Of these 1,601 are accepted species names.
The Plant List includes a further 449 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Begoniaceae. 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 2,787 species names for the family Begoniaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 1,601 | 57.4% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 967 | 34.7% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 0 | 0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 219 | 7.9% |
All names
The status of the 3,236 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Begoniaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 1,618 | 50.0% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 1,396 | 43.1% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 0 | 0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 222 | 6.9% |
Of the species names,
- 59 are recorded as invalid
- 108 are recorded as illegitimate
- 4 are recorded as a spelling variant
A further 5 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.
The confidence with which the status of the 2,787 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Begoniaceae, are assigned as follows:
| Confidence level | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
High confidence | 1,589 | 936 | 0 | 0 | 2,525 | 90.6% |
 |
Medium confidence | 11 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 1.2% |
 |
Low confidence | 1 | 9 | 0 | 219 | 229 | 8.2% |
The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Begoniaceae is as follows:
| Source of record | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Misapplied | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropicos | 11 | 23 | 0 | 122 | 0 | 156 | 5.6% |
| WCSP | 1,590 | 944 | 0 | 97 | 5 | 2,631 | 94.4% |