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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Myrtaceae

Myrtaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Myrtaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 145 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 13,990 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Myrtaceae. Of these 5,970 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2,755 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Myrtaceae. 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 13,990 species names for the family Myrtaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	5,970	42.7%
◕	Synonym	7,475	53.4%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	544	3.9%

All names

The status of the 16,745 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Myrtaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6,141	36.7%
◕	Synonym	10,054	60.0%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	549	3.3%

Of the species names,

156 are recorded as invalid
535 are recorded as illegitimate
12 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 13,990 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Myrtaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	5,875	7,216	0	0	13,091	93.6%
Medium confidence	90	163	0	0	253	1.8%
Low confidence	5	96	1	544	646	4.6%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
iPlants	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.0%
Tropicos	90	171	0	194	0	455	3.3%
WCSP	5,880	7,296	0	338	2	13,514	96.6%
WCSP (in review)	0	7	1	12	0	20	0.1%