The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.

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

Fagaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Fagaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Fagaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 8 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 4,154 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Fagaceae. Of these 1,105 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2,270 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Fagaceae. 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 4,154 species names for the family Fagaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 1,105 26.6%
Synonym 2,835 68.2%
Unplaced 148 3.6%
Unassessed 66 1.6%

All names

The status of the 6,424 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Fagaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 1,188 18.5%
Synonym 5,017 78.1%
Unplaced 149 2.3%
Unassessed 70 1.1%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 4,154 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Fagaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 1,091 2,727 0 0 3,818 91.9%
Medium confidence 12 90 0 0 102 2.5%
Low confidence 2 18 148 66 234 5.6%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 12 89 0 40 0 141 3.4%
WCSP 1,093 2,745 148 24 1 4,011 96.6%
WCSP (in review) 0 1 0 2 0 3 0.1%