The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Buxaceae

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

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Buxaceae

A list of all accepted names in Buxaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Buxaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 5 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 247 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Buxaceae. Of these 118 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 77 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Buxaceae. 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 247 species names for the family Buxaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 118 47.8%
Synonym 94 38.1%
Unplaced 2 0.8%
Unassessed 33 13.4%

All names

The status of the 324 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Buxaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 129 39.8%
Synonym 158 48.8%
Unplaced 2 0.6%
Unassessed 35 10.8%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 247 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Buxaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 3 5 0 0 8 3.2%
Medium confidence 105 69 0 0 174 70.4%
Low confidence 10 20 2 33 65 26.3%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the family Buxaceae, are as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 12 22 0 2 0 36 14.6%
WCSP 3 5 0 0 0 8 3.2%
WCSP (in review) 103 67 2 31 0 203 82.2%