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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Acanthaceae

Acanthaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

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A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Acanthaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Acanthaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 242 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 12,779 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Acanthaceae. Of these 3,947 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 717 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Acanthaceae. 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 12,779 species names for the family Acanthaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3,947	30.9%
◕	Synonym	3,660	28.6%
◕	Unplaced	10	0.1%
◕	Unassessed	5,162	40.4%

All names

The status of the 13,496 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Acanthaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	4,021	29.8%
◕	Synonym	4,264	31.6%
◕	Unplaced	10	0.1%
◕	Unassessed	5,201	38.5%

Of the species names,

66 are recorded as invalid
88 are recorded as illegitimate
5 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 2 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 12,779 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Acanthaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	8	37	0	0	45	0.4%
Medium confidence	3,712	2,795	0	0	6,507	50.9%
Low confidence	227	828	10	5,162	6,227	48.7%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Acanthaceae is as follows:

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
iPlants	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.0%
TICA	0	0	0	39	0	39	0.3%
Tropicos	1,797	1,094	4	222	0	3,117	24.4%
WCSP	8	37	0	6	0	51	0.4%
WCSP (in review)	2,142	2,528	6	4,895	2	9,571	74.9%