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⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.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

Clethraceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Clethraceae

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

Statistics

Species of Clethraceae contained within The Plant List belong to 2 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 242 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Clethraceae. Of these 83 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 52 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Clethraceae. 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 242 species names for the family Clethraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 83 34.3%
Synonym 136 56.2%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 23 9.5%

All names

The status of the 294 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Clethraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 89 30.3%
Synonym 182 61.9%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 23 7.8%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 242 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Clethraceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 79 120 0 0 199 82.2%
Medium confidence 4 14 0 0 18 7.4%
Low confidence 0 2 0 23 25 10.3%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 3 12 0 9 0 24 9.9%
WCSP 79 120 0 1 0 200 82.6%
WCSP (in review) 1 4 0 13 0 18 7.4%