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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Commelinaceae

Commelinaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Commelinaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Commelinaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 41 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 2,179 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Commelinaceae. Of these 728 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 393 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Commelinaceae. 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 2,179 species names for the family Commelinaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	728	33.4%
◕	Synonym	1,368	62.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	83	3.8%

All names

The status of the 2,572 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Commelinaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	766	29.8%
◕	Synonym	1,723	67.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	83	3.2%

Of the species names,

58 are recorded as invalid
82 are recorded as illegitimate
2 are recorded as a spelling variant

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

The confidence with which the status of the 2,179 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Commelinaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	725	1,328	0	2,053	94.2%
Medium confidence	3	37	0	40	1.8%
Low confidence	0	3	83	86	3.9%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
Tropicos	3	37	33	0	73	3.4%
WCSP	725	1,331	49	1	2,105	96.6%
WCSP (in review)	0	0	1	0	1	0.0%