The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

Statistics

Species of The Plant List contained within The Plant List belong to 642 plant families and 17,020 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 1,064,035 scientific plant names of species rank for the The Plant List. Of these 350,699 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 229,650 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the The Plant List. 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 1,064,035 species names for the The Plant List recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of binomial name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 350,699 33.0%
Synonym 470,624 44.2%
Unplaced 243 0.0%
Unassessed 242,469 22.8%

All names

The status of the 1,293,685 names (including infraspecific names) for the The Plant List recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Pie chart of all name statuses
Status Total
Accepted 373,945 28.9%
Synonym 670,990 51.9%
Unplaced 249 0.0%
Unassessed 248,501 19.2%

Of the species names,

A further 1,320 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 1,064,035 species names recorded in The Plant List for the The Plant List, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 149,349 229,242 0 0 378,591 35.6%
Medium confidence 193,013 214,107 0 0 407,120 38.3%
Low confidence 8,337 27,275 243 242,469 278,324 26.2%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
ILDIS 19,874 21,972 0 30 1,048 41,876 3.9%
IOPI 498 809 0 23 0 1,330 0.1%
iPlants 3,518 7,629 0 371 7 11,518 1.1%
IPNI 0 0 0 24,275 0 24,275 2.3%
TICA 32,615 47,557 28 27,084 0 107,284 10.1%
RJP 4,689 6,929 26 16,658 0 28,302 2.7%
Tropicos 99,498 96,396 0 28,570 0 224,464 21.1%
WCSP 122,609 198,158 0 10,836 149 331,603 31.2%
WCSP (in review) 67,398 91,174 189 134,622 116 293,383 27.6%