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- The Plant List
- Angiosperms
- Alismataceae
- Angiosperms
Alismataceae
The family Alismataceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).
Statistics are at the bottom of the page.
Genera in Alismataceae
- Albidella
- Alisma
- Astonia
- Baldellia
- Burnatia
- Butomopsis
- Caldesia
- Damasonium
- Echinodorus
- Helanthium
- Hydrocleys
- Limnocharis
- Limnophyton
- Lophiocarpus
- Luronium
- Ranalisma
- Sagittaria
- Wiesneria
A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Alismataceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .
Statistics
Species of Alismataceae contained within The Plant List belong to 17 plant genera.
The Plant List includes 502 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Alismataceae. Of these 120 are accepted species names.
The Plant List includes a further 369 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Alismataceae. 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 502 species names for the family Alismataceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 120 | 23.9% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 359 | 71.5% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 0 | 0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 23 | 4.6% |
All names
The status of the 871 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Alismataceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:
| Status | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ◕ | Accepted | 130 | 14.9% |
| ◕ | Synonym | 717 | 82.3% |
| ◕ | Unplaced | 0 | 0% |
| ◕ | Unassessed | 24 | 2.8% |
Of the species names,
- 20 are recorded as invalid
- 27 are recorded as illegitimate
- 3 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 502 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Alismataceae, are assigned as follows:
| Confidence level | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
High confidence | 117 | 346 | 0 | 0 | 463 | 92.2% |
 |
Medium confidence | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3.0% |
 |
Low confidence | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 24 | 4.8% |
The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Alismataceae is as follows:
| Source of record | Accepted | Synonym | Unplaced | Unassessed | Misapplied | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tropicos | 3 | 11 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 27 | 5.4% |
| WCSP | 117 | 347 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 474 | 94.4% |
| WCSP (in review) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.2% |