Statistics

Species of Papaveraceae contained within The Plant List belong to 40 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 2,666 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Papaveraceae. Of these 906 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 754 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Papaveraceae. 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 2,666 species names for the family Papaveraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	906	34.0%
◕	Synonym	1,098	41.2%
◕	Unplaced	75	2.8%
◕	Unassessed	587	22.0%

All names

The status of the 3,420 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Papaveraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,033	30.2%
◕	Synonym	1,706	49.9%
◕	Unplaced	76	2.2%
◕	Unassessed	605	17.7%

Of these names,

• 13 are recorded as invalid
• 47 are recorded as illegitimate

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

The confidence with which the status of the 2,666 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Papaveraceae, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	889	1,033	0	0	1,922	72.1%
	Low confidence	17	65	75	587	744	27.9%

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