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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Primulaceae

Primulaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

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A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Primulaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Primulaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 68 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 8,136 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Primulaceae. Of these 2,788 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,252 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Primulaceae. 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 8,136 species names for the family Primulaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,788	34.3%
◕	Synonym	3,140	38.6%
◕	Unplaced	13	0.2%
◕	Unassessed	2,195	27.0%

All names

The status of the 9,388 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Primulaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	2,970	31.6%
◕	Synonym	4,183	44.6%
◕	Unplaced	13	0.1%
◕	Unassessed	2,222	23.7%

Of the species names,

39 are recorded as invalid
100 are recorded as illegitimate
3 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 2 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 8,136 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Primulaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	9	0	0	9	0.1%
Medium confidence	2,686	2,845	0	0	5,531	68.0%
Low confidence	102	286	13	2,195	2,596	31.9%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
Tropicos	989	1,215	0	83	0	2,287	28.1%
WCSP	0	11	0	6	0	17	0.2%
WCSP (in review)	1,799	1,914	13	2,106	2	5,832	71.7%