The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Commelinaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Commelinaceae

A list of all accepted names in Commelinaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Commelinaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 41 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 2,168 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Commelinaceae. Of these 723 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 370 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Commelinaceae. 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 2,168 species names for the family Commelinaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 723 33.3%
Synonym 1,372 63.3%
Unplaced 45 2.1%
Unassessed 28 1.3%

All names

The status of the 2,538 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Commelinaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 787 31.0%
Synonym 1,678 66.1%
Unplaced 45 1.8%
Unassessed 28 1.1%

Of these names,

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 2,168 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Commelinaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 722 1,325 0 0 2,047 94.4%
Medium confidence 1 44 0 0 45 2.1%
Low confidence 0 3 45 28 76 3.5%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 1 44 0 25 0 70 3.2%
WCSP 722 1,328 45 3 1 2,099 96.8%