The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Heliconiaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Heliconiaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Heliconiaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 1 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 389 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Heliconiaceae. Of these 204 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 71 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Heliconiaceae. 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 389 species names for the family Heliconiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 204 52.4%
Synonym 176 45.2%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 9 2.3%

All names

The status of the 460 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Heliconiaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 208 45.2%
Synonym 243 52.8%
Unplaced 0 0%
Unassessed 9 2.0%

Of the species names,

The confidence with which the status of the 389 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Heliconiaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 201 169 0 0 370 95.1%
Medium confidence 3 7 0 0 10 2.6%
Low confidence 0 0 0 9 9 2.3%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 3 7 0 5 0 15 3.9%
WCSP 201 169 0 4 0 374 96.1%