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⚠ Version 1 of The Plant List has been superseded.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

Polygalaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Polygalaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Polygalaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 23 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 2,793 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Polygalaceae. Of these 729 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 240 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Polygalaceae. 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 2,793 species names for the family Polygalaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 729 26.1%
Synonym 624 22.3%
Unplaced 4 0.1%
Unassessed 1,436 51.4%

All names

The status of the 3,033 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Polygalaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 779 25.7%
Synonym 795 26.2%
Unplaced 4 0.1%
Unassessed 1,455 48.0%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 2,793 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Polygalaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 0 1 0 0 1 0.0%
Medium confidence 713 557 0 0 1,270 45.5%
Low confidence 16 66 4 1,436 1,522 54.5%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 398 335 0 55 0 788 28.2%
WCSP 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0%
WCSP (in review) 331 288 4 1,381 0 2,004 71.8%