The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Clethraceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Clethraceae

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

Statistics

Species of Clethraceae contained within The Plant List belong to 2 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 236 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Clethraceae. Of these 85 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 63 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Clethraceae. 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 236 species names for the family Clethraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
◕ Accepted 85 36.0%
◕ Synonym 134 56.8%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 17 7.2%

All names

The status of the 299 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Clethraceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
◕ Accepted 91 30.4%
◕ Synonym 190 63.5%
◕ Unplaced 0 0%
◕ Unassessed 18 6.0%

Of the species names,

The confidence with which the status of the 236 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Clethraceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 80 120 0 0 200 84.7%
Medium confidence 5 13 0 0 18 7.6%
Low confidence 0 1 0 17 18 7.6%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 3 9 0 6 0 18 7.6%
WCSP 80 120 0 1 0 201 85.2%
WCSP (in review) 2 5 0 10 0 17 7.2%