The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Heliconiaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Heliconiaceae

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

Statistics

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

The Plant List includes 408 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Heliconiaceae. Of these 207 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 62 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Heliconiaceae. 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 408 species names for the family Heliconiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 207 50.7%
Synonym 189 46.3%
Unplaced 4 1.0%
Unassessed 8 2.0%

All names

The status of the 470 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Heliconiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 216 46.0%
Synonym 242 51.5%
Unplaced 4 0.9%
Unassessed 8 1.7%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 408 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Heliconiaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 201 168 0 0 369 90.4%
Medium confidence 6 21 0 0 27 6.6%
Low confidence 0 0 4 8 12 2.9%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 6 21 0 8 0 35 8.6%
WCSP 201 168 4 0 0 373 91.4%