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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Polygalaceae

Polygalaceae

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

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Genera in Polygalaceae

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

Statistics

Species of Polygalaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 27 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 2,870 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Polygalaceae. Of these 1,163 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 287 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Polygalaceae. 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 2,870 species names for the family Polygalaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,163	40.5%
◕	Synonym	584	20.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1,123	39.1%

All names

The status of the 3,157 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Polygalaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1,200	38.0%
◕	Synonym	821	26.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1,136	36.0%

Of the species names,

5 are recorded as invalid
11 are recorded as illegitimate
1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 2,870 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Polygalaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	0	1	0	1	0.0%
Medium confidence	1,148	533	0	1,681	58.6%
Low confidence	15	50	1,123	1,188	41.4%

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

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unassessed	Total
Tropicos	790	290	62	1,142	39.8%
WCSP	0	1	0	1	0.0%
WCSP (in review)	373	293	1,061	1,727	60.2%