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⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.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.

Cycadaceae

The family Cycadaceae is in the major group Gymnosperms (Conifers, cycads and allies).

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Cycadaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Cycadaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 1 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 171 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Cycadaceae. Of these 90 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 54 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Cycadaceae. 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 171 species names for the family Cycadaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 90 52.6%
Synonym 71 41.5%
Unplaced 5 2.9%
Unassessed 5 2.9%

All names

The status of the 225 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Cycadaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 90 40.0%
Synonym 124 55.1%
Unplaced 5 2.2%
Unassessed 6 2.7%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 171 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Cycadaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 87 63 0 0 150 87.7%
Medium confidence 1 1 0 0 2 1.2%
Low confidence 2 7 5 5 19 11.1%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 1 1 0 2 0 4 2.3%
WCSP 89 70 5 3 0 167 97.7%