Statistics

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

The Plant List includes 160 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Ephedraceae. Of these 67 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 79 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Ephedraceae. 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 160 species names for the family Ephedraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	67	41.9%
◕	Synonym	91	56.9%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	1.3%

All names

The status of the 239 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Ephedraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	80	33.5%
◕	Synonym	157	65.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	0.8%

Of these names,

• 4 are recorded as invalid
• 8 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 160 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Ephedraceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	67	90	0	0	157	98.1%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	0.6%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	2	2	1.3%

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