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⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.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

Betulaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Betulaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Betulaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 6 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 948 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Betulaceae. Of these 230 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 997 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Betulaceae. 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 948 species names for the family Betulaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 230 24.3%
Synonym 617 65.1%
Unplaced 49 5.2%
Unassessed 52 5.5%

All names

The status of the 1,945 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Betulaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 305 15.7%
Synonym 1,537 79.0%
Unplaced 49 2.5%
Unassessed 54 2.8%

Of these names,

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

The confidence with which the status of the 948 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Betulaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 226 592 0 0 818 86.3%
Medium confidence 4 23 0 0 27 2.8%
Low confidence 0 2 49 52 103 10.9%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 4 24 0 40 0 68 7.2%
WCSP 226 593 49 12 1 881 92.9%