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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Ericaceae

Ericaceae

The family Ericaceae 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 Ericaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Ericaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 151 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 12,098 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Ericaceae. Of these 3,554 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2,261 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Ericaceae. 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 12,098 species names for the family Ericaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3,554	29.4%
◕	Synonym	4,646	38.4%
◕	Unplaced	9	0.1%
◕	Unassessed	3,889	32.1%

All names

The status of the 14,359 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Ericaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3,922	27.3%
◕	Synonym	6,473	45.1%
◕	Unplaced	9	0.1%
◕	Unassessed	3,955	27.5%

Of the species names,

42 are recorded as invalid
122 are recorded as illegitimate
5 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 3 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 12,098 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Ericaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	1	0	0	1	0.0%
Medium confidence	3,419	3,946	0	0	7,365	60.9%
Low confidence	135	699	9	3,889	4,732	39.1%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
TICA	0	0	1	0	0	1	0.0%
Tropicos	1,266	1,446	0	103	0	2,815	23.3%
WCSP	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.0%
WCSP (in review)	2,288	3,199	8	3,786	3	9,281	76.7%