The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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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 and unassessed names in Fagaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Fagaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 9 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 4,141 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Fagaceae. Of these 1,101 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2,360 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 4,141 species names for the family Fagaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 1,101 26.6%
Synonym 2,824 68.2%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 216 5.2%

All names

The status of the 6,501 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Fagaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 1,151 17.7%
Synonym 5,129 78.9%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 221 3.4%

Of the species names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 4,141 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Fagaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 1,086 2,721 0 0 3,807 91.9%
Medium confidence 13 62 0 0 75 1.8%
Low confidence 2 41 0 216 259 6.3%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Fagaceae is as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 13 61 0 48 0 122 2.9%
WCSP 1,088 2,762 0 167 1 4,017 97.0%
WCSP (in review) 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.0%